old convicted murderer sentenced to 100 years in prison
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The boy, Jo’Majze Larry, was convicted of murder in June by an Indiana jury.
A 15-year-old Indiana boy has been sentenced to 100 years in prison after being convicted in a 2025 gang-related shooting that left one woman dead, another wounded and a third injured when she was hit by a car fleeing the gunfire, prosecutors said.
The boy, Jo’Majze Larry of Anderson, Indiana, was sentenced on Wednesday during a hearing before Judge David Happe of the Circuit Court of Madison County.
Details
Larry was one of four members of the Mickey Cobra Nation (MCN) gang charged with murder in the killing of 26-year-old Dayla Swain, who prosecutors said was shot in February 2025 outside a nightclub in Anderson, a suburb of Indianapolis.
Swain was shot during a botched hit on a witness to another homicide, prosecutors said.
Larry and his co-defendant, 19-year-old Rashawn Samuels, who went on trial together, were convicted by a jury on June 30, according to the Madison County District Attorney’s Office.
Analysis
During a court hearing on Thursday, Happe sentenced Samuels to 125 years in prison, prosecutors said.
Following their convictions, Samuels and Larry admitted to an enhancement charge of being part of a criminal organization, according to prosecutors.
Happe handed down a 50-year prison sentence on Larry for the murder of Swain, and gave the teenager another 50 years for the gang enhancement charge.
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