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August 12, 2015
After being found guilty for a 2011 double murder at an auto parts store in Baton Rouge, a judge has sentenced Lee Turner to death by lethal injection.
Turner and his attorney were in court Monday and filed a motion for a new trial. The motion for a new trial was denied and the sentencing phase continued.
“In my opinion, based on what this person did, this is the only appropriate, just decision,” said East Baton Rouge District Attorney Hillar Moore.
In May, Turner was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two men during a robbery at CarQuest Auto Parts on Airline Highway in 2011. A few days later, a jury recommended he be sentenced to death.
“This defendant has never accepted responsibility, never reached out whatsoever to this office or the victims’ families and now seeks again to blame everyone else for his behavior, which is completely unacceptable,” Moore said.
Edward Gurtner, 43, and Randy Chaney, 54, were found dead in a back room of the store on March 27, 2011. Both were helping out at the store, but worked at other CarQuest locations.
Coming out of court Monday, members of Gurtner’s family described the last four years as very long.
“We all miss him tremendously, we always will,” said Gurtner’s step-father Nick Dunman. “I don’t know if we ever will have closure, but we will start healing now.”
“It was a senseless killing,” said Gurtner’s wife, Elizabeth, who described her husband as fun-loving and a man who would give you the shirt off his back.
Elizabeth said she has attended all but two court appointments during the trial period.
“For me, this is closure. After four and a half years, I’m ready to go and leave this behind me,” she added.
She said she wishes Chaney’s wife could have been at the court Monday too.
