TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Katharine Heriges on Dec 14, 2017
A Knox County jury today convicted three men in the fatal shooting of Zaevion Dobson, the Knoxville teen who died shielding his friends from gunfire in December 2015, Knoxnews reports. Christopher Drone Bassett was found guilty of first-degree murder, while Richard Gregory Williams III and Kipling Colbert Jr. were found guilty of facilitation of first degree murder. Bassett will receive an automatic life sentence with the possibility of parole after 51 years. Williams and Colbert potentially face 15 to 25 years.