LAFAYETTE, La. (KLFY) — A man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of a murder committed in 2020, authorities said.

A Lafayette Parish jury convicted Kendell Dice Ledet of second degree murder Thursday in the shooting death of Damian George at a convenience store on Sept. 19, 2020.

Police said they found George shot multiple times in the 800 block of N. University Avenue. He later died at the hospital.

Prosecutors said George stopped at the convenience store at 10:37 p.m. that evening. Ledet saw George and waited for him to exit the store, then shot him six times with a .40 caliber pistol.

Ledet was arrested in East Baton Rouge Parish by members of the U.S. Marshall’s Violent Offender Task Force four days later.

Sentencing will take place after a pre-sentence investigation has been received by District Judge
Krystian Earles, who presided over the trial. Ledet faces a mandatory sentence of life at hard
labor on the conviction for second degree murder.

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