Jurors sentenced Ricky Lee Blackwell Sr. to death Sunday night for the 2009 kidnapping and murder of 8-year-old Brooke Center...
Blackwell, 55, placed Brooke in a chokehold and shot her four times as his former wife and grandsons watched...
Barnette said the murder was premeditated. He held up the .357 Magnum gun used to shoot Brooke to death. Blackwell took the weapon from his father’s home and parked his truck in the garage at the home where he and Davis used to live before approaching and murdering Brooke.
