A judge sentenced a man to decades in prison for the 2016 murder of 15-year-old Brandon Wingo, capping the state’s nearly decadelong pursuit of accountability for a murder that shocked Wilmington.
Wingo was hunted down and shot to death as he walked home from school on Clifford Brown Walk on a sunny weekday afternoon. His killing was among the most prominent in what prosecutors have described as a deadly war of retaliation among local youths, which they have said led to the deaths of several city teens and has seen others put in prison for life.
On Friday, Diamonte Taylor, who was 18 years old when he shot Wingo, stood in court and apologized to Wingo’s family and took accountability for the killing…