MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Pa. (KYW Newsradio) — The teenager convicted of first-degree murder for pulling the trigger during a robbery in Norristown earlier this year is sentenced to at least half a century in prison.
Damon Brantley is sentenced to 50 to 100 years in prison. He avoids a mandatory life sentence because the robbery and murder happened seven days before his 18th birthday. Under Pennsylvania law, a juvenile cannot be sentenced to life.
Prosecutor Meghan Carney says she asked for a long sentence, saying Brantley took the Jan. 20 robbery at Wood and Powell streets to another level when he shot 35-year-old William Carter in the head…