The Georgia Supreme Court on Monday affirmed the murder conviction and life sentence for a Savannah man in the 2010 slaying of Reginald Williams.
Ronnie Lee “Lott” Wilson, 23, was convicted in Chatham County Superior Court on Oct. 28, 2011, in the Williams slaying. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole plus five years.
Williams, 23, was fatally shot on July 26, 2010, at Stillwood Drive and Oxford Court in Windsor Forest.
The Supreme Court found no error and affirmed the conclusions.
The victim and his friend, Darrell Simmons, drove Simmons’ car to a location after receiving a phone call from Wilson seeking to buy Ecstasy pills.
During the proposed transaction, Wilson pulled a pistol and struck Williams in the face; moments later a gunshot was fired inside the car.
Williams stumbled out of the car with a gunshot wound to his back and fled until he collapsed in a neighbor’s yard and later died. Wilson fled in Simmons’ car.
A witness told police Wilson admitted to him he had shot Williams and knew it was wrong.
The high court’s justices found evidence was sufficient to allow the jurors to find Wilson guilty of the crimes for which he was convicted.