A 19-year-old Jacksonville man was sentenced to 45 years in prison Friday after being found guilty of attempted second-degree murder in the shooting of another man in October 2010.
Prosecutors said Raymond Austin Jr., then 17, lured Carl Davis to a Jacksonville parking lot and then shot him in the chest.
Shanda Merritt, Austin's co-defendant, was Davis' ex-girlfriend. Â She will face the attmempted murder charge in trial on August 20.
Austin will be back in court November 13 for another trial involving a 2010 kidnapping, armed robbery and first-degree murder of 83-year-old Charles Soukup.
Austin, Merritt and two co-defendants are charged with kidnapping Soukup from the Jacksonville International Airport and then killing him. Â Soukup's body was found near the airport. Â The car Austin used in the attempted murder of Davis was Soukup's rental vehicle, prosecutors said.
Assistant State Attorney John Guy tried the case.
