Man Gets Life in Shooting Death at Online Sale That Went Bad

Man Gets Life in Shooting Death at Online Sale That Went Bad
Carlos Stephens. Birmingham Police Department
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BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—A former football player for the University of Alabama at Birmingham was sentenced on Wednesday to life in prison in the death of a nursing student who was shot during an online sale that went bad.

Carlos Stephens, 24, was convicted in April of capital murder in the 2020 shooting death of Destiny Washington, 20.