Brumfield sentenced to death
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Sanchez Brumfield was formally sentenced to death this morning for his role in the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old man behind the Olive Garden restaurant on Siegen Lane in 2006.
An East Baton Rouge Parish jury convicted Brumfield, now 24, of first-degree murder in May in the killing of Aaron Arnold, a pre-med student at LSU and a server at the restaurant.
The jury also recommended that Brumfield die by lethal injection.
Moments before state District Judge Todd Hernandez formally imposed the death sentence on Brumfield, a composed Bobby Arnold, the father of Aaron Arnold, took the stand, looked directly at Brumfield and said he deserves to die for what he did.
“You chose to participate in that event that night. That was your choice. I wish you hadn’t been there that night. I wish my son had not been there that night,’’ he said.
Brumfield’s alleged accomplice, Tracy Young, is scheduled to stand trial Jan. 12. Prosecutors also are seeking the death penalty against Young, the alleged triggerman.
Bruce Craft, one of Brumfield’s trial attorneys, said Brumfield, if executed, would be the first non-shooter put to death in Louisiana since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
An East Baton Rouge Parish jury convicted Brumfield, now 24, of first-degree murder in May in the killing of Aaron Arnold, a pre-med student at LSU and a server at the restaurant.
The jury also recommended that Brumfield die by lethal injection.
Moments before state District Judge Todd Hernandez formally imposed the death sentence on Brumfield, a composed Bobby Arnold, the father of Aaron Arnold, took the stand, looked directly at Brumfield and said he deserves to die for what he did.
“You chose to participate in that event that night. That was your choice. I wish you hadn’t been there that night. I wish my son had not been there that night,’’ he said.
Brumfield’s alleged accomplice, Tracy Young, is scheduled to stand trial Jan. 12. Prosecutors also are seeking the death penalty against Young, the alleged triggerman.
Bruce Craft, one of Brumfield’s trial attorneys, said Brumfield, if executed, would be the first non-shooter put to death in Louisiana since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976.
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