Two Marietta men convicted of killing a member of Atlanta's Twerk Team dance group will spend the rest of their lives in prison.
Simeon Gashon Moore, 27, and Walter Milbourne, 31, were sentenced Monday to life without parole plus five years in confinement for the November 2014 shooting death of Jamie Adedra Moore, said Kim Isaza, spokeswoman for Cobb District Attorney Vic Reynolds.
They were sentenced days after a Cobb jury found them guilty of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, burglary, armed robbery, violation of the Georgia controlled substances act and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Jamie Moore, 24, was an original member of the Twerk Team, a group featured in music videos with rappers Waka Flocka Flame and Three 6 Mafia. She went by the name Betty Butt.
According to prosecutors, Milbourne, Simeon Moore and Kevin Nathanial Robinson were involved in a drug deal with her boyfriend. The trio followed the boyfriend, Jamie Milton, to the Mission at Galleria apartments in Smyrna, where Jamie Moore was cooking dinner. Robinson left his cellphone in Milton’s car, authorities said.
Milbourne and Robinson had Milton come outside the apartment so they could look for the phone. At some point, the men held Milton at gunpoint at the vehicle, and Milbourne entered the apartment, threatened Jamie Moore with a firearm, demanded marijuana and shot her in the head, Isaza said.
“Milbourne left Jamie Moore in a pool of her own blood, gasping for air as he stole marijuana, money and clothing items,” Isaza said.
Milton, 29, was grazed by a bullet as the trio left the scene in Simeon Moore’s Toyota Camry, but escaped without injury and called 911 with a description of the men and the car.
“Soon thereafter, defendants engaged Smyrna and Cobb officers in a chase that ultimately ended with the Camry striking two vehicles and flipping, coming to a rest upside down,” Isaza said.
Milbourne, Robinson and Simeon Moore ran from the wreckage but were taken into custody a short distance from the crash site, police said.
Robinson pleaded guilty earlier this month to voluntary manslaughter and aggravated assault. His sentencing date has not been set. In addition to the other charges, Simeon Moore was convicted of fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer.
Senior Assistant District Attorney Patricia Hull, who helped prosecute the case against Simeon Moore and Milbourne, called it a “senseless crime based solely upon greed.”
She said Jamie Moore “was a young woman starting up her own clothing business, who had battled stage 4 ovarian cancer and survived, only to die like this.”
