KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A man who said he was "hanging out with the wrong crowd" has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a murder that was caught on surveillance tape.
Judge John Torrence said in sentencing David W. Bates on his convictions for second-degree murder and armed criminal action.
Rubin Turner, 61, was shot in the head and killed in November 1999 in a liquor store parking lot. The grainy surveillance tape played in Jackson County Circuit Court on Friday showed the gunman coolly walk away after the shooting.
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