A Fayette circuit judge followed the recommendation for a plea deal and sentenced a Georgetown woman to 13 years in prison for a fatal shooting that killed a mother of three outside the Fayette Mall in 2019.
Markeeta Campbell, 27, was sentenced to 13 years in prison on Friday by Judge Lucy VanMeter on an amended first-degree manslaughter charge, according to online court records.
Campbell was originally charged with the murder of Nicholasville’s mother, LaPorscha Stringer, 30, who was shot as she left Fayette Mall in 2019. Campbell has been in jail since her arrest, according to online court records.
On August 23, 2019, Stringer was at a red light exiting a mall parking lot when a person in the vehicle in front of her turned around and entered the mall parking lot via an exit lane, witnesses told police.
When the suspect was next to Stringer’s car, they fired several shots at him before driving off, police said at the time. Stringer died at the University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital a few days later.
Campbell accepted a plea deal in March. The prosecution offered a plea deal for 15 years in prison, but defense attorney Daniel Whitley countered with an offer of 13 years.
The victim’s family feared that if the case went to trial there was a chance that no sentence could be served, Fayette Commonwealth lawyer Kimberly Baird said. On behalf of the family, prosecutors agreed to the 13-year deal.