A 31-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years for killing a man in Norwood more than four years ago, Norfolk District Attorney Michael Morrissey’s office announced.
Ernest D. Payne, of Cambridge, was sentenced Thursday in Norfolk Superior Court after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for the slaying of 28-year-old Shakim Lewis-Johnson, of Hyde Park, Morrissey’s office said in a statement.
Payne admitted to shooting Lewis-Johnson as he left a friend’s home in Norwood on Sept. 19, 2021. Lewis-Johnson was flown to Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston following the shooting, where he was pronounced dead, according to the statement.
Payne wasn’t arrested until several months later, when he was found in Miami, Florida in March 2022, according to the statement.
“We hope Shakim’s family and friends will be able to heal from the trauma they suffered from this senseless act of violence,” Morrissey said in the statement.
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