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Leftenent was sentenced to life without parole for the DeKalb motel double murder.
On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, William Leftenent, 39, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to life without parole plus 10 years after a DeKalb County jury convicted him Wednesday of malice murder and related counts in the May 28, 2024 motel killings of Lamar Pringle, 32, and Mariana Greene, 35.
By Crime Talk Network Staff Writer ·
A life-without-parole sentence after a jury conviction is the court's judgment. It is not a new charging decision, and it is not an open accusation. On Thursday, Sept. 24, 2026, DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Gregory A. Adams sentenced William Leftenent, 39, to life without the possibility of parole plus 10 years after a jury found him guilty Wednesday of malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and firearm charges in the May 28, 2024 deaths of Lamar Pringle, 32, and Mariana Greene, 35, at a Decatur-area extended-stay motel. That term is the judgment.
Officers responding around 4:30 a.m. to the extended-stay motel in the 3600 block of Flat Shoals Parkway found Greene dead inside a first-floor room with a gunshot wound to her chest. Friends rushed Pringle to Grady Memorial Hospital with a gunshot wound to his back; he did not survive.
Witnesses described a man known as "Philly" arguing inside the room, stepping out, then returning to open fire. Motel surveillance showed him leave, return for a hooded sweatshirt, fire three shots through the front door from outside, and run, according to the DeKalb County District Attorney's Office as reported by FOX 5 Atlanta.
Detectives matched that footage to a prior police report photo of Leftenent, obtained warrants on May 29, 2024, and arrested him in Orlando, Florida, on March 19, 2025. The jury convicted him Wednesday; the court imposed the life-without-parole-plus-10-years sentence Thursday.
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