TAMPA — Five men convicted in the 2021 shooting death of 4-year-old Suni Bell received life sentences with no parole on Wednesday morning in Hillsborough County Court.

Zvante Sampson, Jaylin Bedward, James Denson, Andrew Thompson and Quandarious Hammond were found guilty in September of first-degree pre-meditated murder .

Bell was sleeping in the backseat of her family's car in August 2021 when dozens of shots were fired from other vehicles, according to prosecutors.

The child's mother was in the passenger seat and her uncle was behind the wheel, but they survived.

Investigators don't know who actually fired the shot that killed the child.

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