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Parker gets 42 years for drive-by killing of innocent bystander Sherwin “Tank” Parker was sentenced Monday to 42 years in the state penitentiary for his part in the drive-by shooting death of a bystander outside of an Alma nightclub in 2004. The former Jackson High School star football player was found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Quinton Webb by a Clarke County Circuit Court jury following a trial a few weeks earlier. Parker faced a minimum of 20 years imprisonment and District Attorney Spence Walker had offered him 13 and a half years for a guilty plea but Parker opted to go to trial instead. Judge Thomas Baxter sentenced him to 30 years on the manslaughter conviction and 12 on an assault, second degree conviction. He also ordered him to pay $45,000 in restitution. Parker and four others had been indicted for murder for the death of Webb. The others-Arthur Yelder, James Yelder, Byron Worthy and Derrick Bracy-have not yet been tried. The defendants had argued with a man at the Star Track Lounge on Feb. 7, 2004 and after they were thrown out of the club they rode by and fired out the vehicle’s window at the man but missed and hit Webb, killing him, and wounding Webb’s cousin. Both were considered to be innocent bystanders. Man 22 years for vehicle murder in death of mother and son Marquez Rankin was sentenced to 22 years for the reckless vehicle murder of a mother and young son on the Walker Springs Road on Feb. 12, 2004. Rankin entered a blind guilty plea during the recent circuit court jury term. He was sentenced by Judge Baxter Monday.
Rankin was accused of drag racing on the Walker Springs Road when he hit a vehicle head-on, killing the driver, Helida Robinson Reid and her son Derrick Lashaun Robinson.
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