Terrance Lee sentenced to 40 years to life for the murder of Marquis Sutton

Terrance Lee was found guilty of second degree murder in August after he shot and killed an Edison High School football player.

Lee loaded a revolver with a single bullet, spun the cylinder, aimed at Sutton, and pulled the trigger twice. On the second pull, he killed the 18-year-old.

Among the witnesses was a 13-year-old who said he heard Lee toying with his target as he pulled the trigger. "Terrance said 'let's see how fast he can run with his messed up ankle," explained the teen witness. "Then he shot it the first time, it didn't go off. He shot it the second time and it went off."

The bullet struck Sutton in the neck and killed him. Witnesses say Lee dragged the body out in front of the Ashmark Arms apartment complex and tried to get them to say it was a drive-by shooting. When police caught up to him, his first story was that the gun just went off.

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