CHARLOTTE — A 40-year-old man pled guilty to multiple charges in connection to a deadly shooting that took place 14 years ago.
A 2016 news release from the Mecklenburg County District Attorney’s Homicide Team says that in September 2012, Connell Muskelly and another man planned to rob 25-year-old Johnny Peay during a drug transaction.
During the robbery attempted, Peay was fatally shot in the back.
Muskelly pled guilty to two counts of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and burning personal property.
He was sentenced to 11-23 months in prison.
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