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Sandwich shop shooter gets 3 life sentences
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published June 17, 2007
TAMPA - A man received three sentences of life in prison for fatally shooting a sandwich store clerk and attempting to kill another during a 2004 robbery. Phillip Austin Jr. killed 22-year-old Subway employee Danielle Miller because she didn't open the cash drawer fast enough, witnesses said. He also shot Dorothy Hayes. A judge Friday sentenced Austin to two life sentences for the shootings and one life sentence for two charges of robbery with a firearm. He is not eligible for parole. Austin shot Miller twice and Hayes once. Assistant State Attorney Doug Covington said he tried to shoot Hayes again, but the gun jammed.
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by Jeff
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06/17/07 07:39 PM
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I'd like to read this and say that it serves as a message to others who may think of committing crimes with a gun. The death penalty would have been more effective. Now taxpayers will pay $87K a year for the next 60 years to keep this animal caged.
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