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Four sentenced to life in prison after luring man through social media to his shooting death


  photo  Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office / Keishann Rowe was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of felony murder and aggravated assault.
 
 


Four people have been sentenced to life in prison for the 2021 murder of a 19-year-old Fort Oglethorpe man, the Lookout Mountain Judicial Circuit District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.

Evidence presented at a trial late last month showed the jury that Keishann Rowe, 21, Keonte Ragland, 20, Deonna Ragland, 19, and Malachi Housley conspired to murder Jaylon Eberhardt after a series of minor disagreements that led to a physical confrontation between Eberhardt and Keonte Ragland.

In June, Housley entered a guilty plea to felony murder and aggravated assault and was sentenced to life in prison. Rowe, Keonte Ragland, and Deonna Ragland were convicted of felony murder and aggravated assault at the weeklong trial and also sentenced to life in prison.