St. Charles man gets life for murder
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CONVENT — A state district judge sentenced a St. Charles Parish man convicted of second-degree murder to serve life in prison, prosecutors said Thursday.
The defendant, Terrell Stipe, 32, 512 Kennedy St., Ama, already was serving 50 years in prison on convictions for aggravated kidnapping and other charges, prosecutors said.
Judge Thomas Kliebert Jr. of 23rd Judicial District Court handed down the mandatory sentence against Stipe at the St. James Parish Courthouse in Convent, District Attorney Ricky Babin said.
A 12-member jury convicted Stipe on June 25 in the shooting death of Keelan Irvin Sr., 25, of Gonzales, prosecutors have said.
Babin said Stipe, who is formerly of Killona, kidnapped Irvin in December 2005 in Ascension Parish and shot and killed him in St. James Parish, possibly in a dispute over wheel rims.
Investigators have said Irvin’s 2002 Chevrolet Avalanche was found abandoned and stripped in Vacherie five days before his body was found in woods off La. 641 in Gramercy.
Prosecutors had previously dropped charges against a second defendant indicted in the slaying, Brian Jones, of White Castle, because of a lack of evidence, said Billy Clark, administrator for the District Attorney’s Office for the 23rd Judicial District.
The 23rd District comprises Ascension, St. James and Assumption parishes.
A Calcasieu Parish judge found Stipe guilty in 2006 on charges of aggravated kidnapping, carjacking and armed robbery, stemming from a separate November 2005 incident.
In that case, Stipe was accused of pointing an assault rifle at a Gonzales man, forcing his way into his car, forcing the victim to drive from Gonzales to Sorrento and then stealing the car.
That conviction, which came after a four-day bench trial, led to the earlier 50-year prison sentence. The sentences will run consecutively, prosecutors said.
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