Woman sentenced to life in prison for killing aunt
A 62-year-old woman was sentenced Oct. 1 to life in prison without possibility of parole for robbing and fatally shooting her aunt, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
A jury on Sept. 8 found Barbara Jean Davenport, who is black, guilty of killing her aunt, 79-year-old Cleo Hughes.
The jury also found Davenport guilty of second-degree robbery as well as a special circumstance of murder during a robbery.
Hughes, a bookkeeper for a family restaurant, was fatally shot in her Harvard Park home on June 2, 2012.
After her son, an LAPD training officer, couldn’t reach Hughes by phone, he went to her home June 3 and found her body.
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