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20-year term set in robbery that led to killing

Published:March 11, 2010, 7:09 AM

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Updated: August 21, 2010, 5:04 AM

Charles Bryant III was ordered Wednesday to spend up to 20 years in prison for killing a man during a failed stickup in the parking lot of a Jefferson Avenue shopping plaza last summer.

Bria Toussaint, the 16-year-old daughter of the victim, denounced Bryant for being “stupid enough to shoot” a 40-year-old man in broad daylight.

Bryant, 20, then apologized “for the pain and suffering that I caused. I know what I did was wrong.”

Prosecutor Colleen Curtin Gable said Bryant repeatedly shot Terrance Craig even after he collapsed during an aborted stickup. Craig, of Landon Street, the father of five, was shot at about 5:30 p. m. Aug. 13 in a parking lot near East Utica Street.

State Supreme Court Justice Christopher J. Burns imposed the 20-year prison term on Bryant’s Feb. 10 plea to a first-degree manslaughter charge.

The victim’s family agreed to the reduced charge.

Bria, a high school student in Chantilly, Va., where she lives with Craig’s former wife, told the judge she had planned an elaborate speech but said she did not believe Bryant would be able to understand the comments. She asked Bryant to look at her, but he continued to stare at Burns.

Bria told Bryant she hopes he is terrorized daily in prison “so you can feel the pain you caused” her loved ones.

A female relative of Bryant was escorted from the courthouse after disrupting the court.

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