Posted on 07/24/2015 1:51:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A federal jury convicted an Oakland man of six felony counts, including first-degree murder, related to a fatal shooting outside a Walmart in East Oakland during a marijuana deal in 2013, prosecutors said.
Damion Sleugh, 28, was found guilty in the drug deal-turned-murder that resulted in the death of Vincent Muzac, 24, of Alameda on the afternoon of Dec. 22, 2013, in the parking lot of a Walmart store on Hegenberger Road, said U.S Attorney Melinda Haag.
Prosecutors said that Sleugh had arranged to buy 5 pounds of marijuana from Muzac, and surveillance video presented at trial showed the victim get into a car in the Walmart parking lot where he remained for four minutes before he was robbed and shot, Haag said.
His body was seen laying on the ground as the car — which was driven by Sleugh, according to investigators — sped away, Haag said.
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Vincent Muzac? Scion of the elevator music empire?
He ended on a sad note.
Why isn’t the selfie mentioned in the excerpt?
Perhaps it wasn’t drugs. He sat in the parking lot, his window down, repeatedly playing the 101 Strings version of Greensleeves.
I bet it wouldn't be too far off to assume that maybe 80% of the prison population of the United States is literally retarded, by that standard.
Should have taken the stairs.
More than half of ‘Rat voters too, very likely.
Selling large amounts of illegal drugs alone in a parking lot to a criminal drug user doesn’t strike me as the safest sort of business deal. Sometimes I think cops are so cynical because they spend the majority of their professional careers looking at things like this and muttering, “well what did you expect would happen, moron?”
It was a disappointing coda to his life, that’s for sure.
In 2008 a much younger Vincent Muzac was interviewed for an article about the decline in military recruits from East Oakland.
Its too bad he didn’t join up as soon as he was eligible.
True, but I guess he figured selling drugs was a quicker way to the “good life”.
It might be, but only if you can survive long enough and don’t end up in jail, which few do.
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