ALBANY, N.Y. (NEWS10) -- The Albany County District Attorney's Office reported that Jahmell Manso of Albany was sentenced to 20 years to life in state prison before Judge William Little on Thursday for the 2024 murder of Davyjian Grier. Manso, 27, pleaded guilty in May.

Manso previously admitted to shooting Grier several times with a Luger handgun while Grier was sitting in his parked car in the City Square Plaza near Delaware Avenue around 5 p.m. on July 9, 2024. He also confessed to flagrantly firing his weapon at Grier as he tried to drive away, endangering numerous pedestrians and passing cars.

Grier crashed his car in the parking lot of a nearby Stewart’s Shops shortly after the shooting and died from his injuries at the scene. Grier's girlfriend and her two children, who were in th

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