Birmingham: A teenager convicted in the fatal beating of a used car dealer from India has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.
Rickey Coleman was ineligible for the death penalty because he was 17 years old when he hit Kavinderpal Banga with a tire iron at his car dealership on May 25, 2005, The Birmingham News reported on its Web site Friday. He was convicted of capital murder last month.
Coleman and Nintonya Matthews posed as customers as three other friends from Carver High School waited in the parking lot as part of a scheme to steal cars. Coleman and Matthews took cars after the beating death.
Matthews, 18, was sentenced to 24 years in prison after pleading guilty to felony murder on Monday.
Terry Hardy, who turns 17 on Sunday, and Randon Neal, 18, were sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday.
Lemarcus Crenshaw, 18, was sentenced to 24 years in prison after he lied during Coleman's trial.
Hardy, Neal and Crenshaw were charged with capital murder but pleaded guilty to felony murder and agreed to testify in Coleman's trial.
Banga, 44, had moved to the United States in 1990 from India.
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