JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In 2020, Rashaurd Lewis was arrested at the age of 19 for the murder of a Jacksonville father. He will now spend the rest of his life in prison.
He was facing the death penalty, but the jury elected to recommend life.
Lewis was found guilty of committing murder as part of a gang-related murder-for-hire scheme. He was seeking to cash in on a $75,000 bounty.
According to the State Attorney's Office, on Dec. 14, 2019, Lewis and two other men followed the victim for over an hour through the city's Northside. He parked his car in a subdivision and took his son into a home.
When the victim came back out from the house and got back into the car, Lewis and another man ran up to the car and fired into the vehicle with both a rifle and a handgun.
Lewis was paid for the murder afterward.
The SAO alleges his codefendant's were paid also.
