CHARLOTTE — A Charlotte man has been sentenced to 538 to 680 months, roughly 45 to 57 years, in prison after being convicted in the 2020 shooting that killed 57-year-old Roscoe Wright Sr. and injured his son, Roscoe “RJ” Wright Jr.
Jamie Briggs, 34, was found guilty of second-degree murder, assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon.
Prosecutors said Briggs approached the Wrights outside their apartment on July 9, 2020, while armed with a .40-caliber handgun. After a brief physical confrontation, Briggs shot Wright Sr. twice, in the head and upper chest, killing him. He then shot RJ in the leg as he walked away.
Briggs, who was already a convicted felon, later went to a hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound and initially claimed he had been shot during an attempted robbery.
Investigators linked shell casings recovered at the shooting scene to a gun found inside Briggs’ apartment, while blood evidence also connected him to the scene.
The jury rejected the first-degree murder charge but convicted Briggs of the lesser-included offense of second-degree murder.
Jurors also found aggravating factors, including that Briggs created a great risk of death to more than one person and that a person under 18 could have seen or heard the shooting, allowing the judge to impose an aggravated-range sentence
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