CLAYTON COUNTY, Ga. — A teen suspect who had been arrested in the murder of his classmate will spend the rest of his life in prison.
A judge sentenced Stanley Dixon to life in prison with the possibility of parole in the 2016 murder of Cedric Clark.
Police found Clark, a high school football player, dead from a gunshot wound at the side of a home near Charles Drew High School the morning of Nov. 2, 2016. Dixon's father was the one who turned him in.
According to police, Clark and another teen had gotten into a fight a few days before Clark's murder and planned to continue the fight after school. But nothing happened.
Later that night, however, as Clark and the teen were walking in the Eagles Crossings Subdivision, Dixon, then just 16 years old, ran into the street and began firing a gun. Clark was hit at least once and died a short distance away behind a home. A homeowner discovered his body the next morning.
Authorities interviewed Dixon about the shooting and later took him to jail. According to police, all parties involved seemed to have "some sort of gang affiliation."
Two years later, on Nov. 9, 2018, a jury convicted Dixon on the murder charge. He was also convicted on several of gang-related counts. A judge sentenced him to 40 years, with the first 30 to serve in confinement.
