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   CROWN POINT — A Gary man was sentenced to 55 years in prison Thursday   
   afternoon for the murder of a 23-year-old outside the slain man's mother's   
   home.   
      
   Virgil King, 24, was sentenced to 50 years for the murder of Daqwuan Walker,   
   23, plus five years on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm by a   
   serious violent felon, according to court records.   
      
   In January 2023, King and co-defendant Micah Sanders, 25, went to the area   
   of the crime in the 500 block of Chase Street in Gary and waited in an alley   
   for Walker to exit his mother's house. They both shot at him multiple times.   
      
   A jury found King guilty June 10 after a trial. Sanders was sentenced to 45   
   years in prison for the murder after he pleaded guilty to the crime in June.   
   Sanders and King were supposed to be tried together until Sanders chose to   
   take a plea.   
      
   According to a sentencing order written by Lake Criminal Court Judge Gina   
   Jones, the aggravating circumstances of the case outweigh any possibility of   
   mitigating factors.   
      
   Jones wrote that King's criminal history, including multiple juvenile   
   adjudications and felony convictions, warrant a higher sentence.   
      
   He also has a history of violating probation, the order said. King was   
   placed on probation in September 2019 after admiting he helped then-15-   
   year-old Chastinea Reeves hide a bloody, broken knife and bloody clothing   
   after she killed her mother, Jamie M. Garnett, 34, on Feb. 13, 2017, in the   
   4400 block of West 23rd Place in Gary. King also pleaded guilty to a felony   
   battery count in a separate case.   
      
   Finally, Jones found the nature and circumstances of the murder to be   
   "gruesome" and "heinous," according to the sentencing order.   
      
   The men fled the scene of the shooting and hid out at a friend's home,   
   according to a probable cause affidavit.   
      
   A Gary Police Department dog tracked the suspects from the crime scene   
   through the backyard of a home on Taney Place to another home in the 2500   
   block of Waverly Drive, about five blocks from where Walker was killed.   
      
   According to court records, police saw a suspect attempt to exit through a   
   window in the back of the house with what appeared to be an object   
   resembling a gun before going back into the house. A resident in the house   
   said he saw the handgun sticking out of the suspect's pocket.   
      
   Residents in the Waverly Drive home said the men started to remove their   
   coats and one of them removed his bulletproof vest, according to police. A   
   witness said one of the men put an object in a closet, police said, and   
   investigators later recovered a loaded, tan handgun.   
      
   https://www.nwitimes.com/news/local/crime-courts/gary-man-sentenced-to-55-   
   years-for-murdering-man-outside-his-mothers-home-crime-   
   courts/article_0238d58a-4859-11ef-ab21-4ffc377e1db1.html   
      
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