Magee pleads guilty on two charges

A 22-year-old Columbia woman, originally indicted for capital murder, will spend at least 15 years in jail after pleading guilty Monday in Forrest County Circuit Court to a lesser charge of accessory after the fact to capital murder.

Court documents show Judge Robert Helfrich sentenced Antonica Magee to 20 years with 15 to serve and five years suspended. Magee also was fined $5,000.

Magee also pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery and was sentenced to five years by Helfrich, with that sentence to run concurrently.

Magee was one of four people arrested and initially charged with capital murder in the December 2012 shooting death of Wesley Owens, 19, at Breckenridge Apartments off Classic Drive in Hattiesburg. Also charged in the incident were Trey Oliver, 21; Eddreon Brister, 20; and Anthony Mitchell, all of Hattiesburg.

Hattiesburg Police Department spokesman Lt. Jon Traxler said police received multiple 911 calls reporting gunshots at the apartment complex on the evening of Dec. 30. Officers arrived to find Owens on his apartment floor with an apparent gunshot wound.

He was pronounced dead at Forrest General Hospital about an hour later, and Forrest County Coroner Butch Benedict said an autopsy confirmed Owens died of a single gunshot wound to the chest area.

All four suspects were arrested the following day and indicted Sept. 20. The indictment also charged each suspect with conspiring with each other to rob Owens of an undetermined amount of cash.

Oliver is serving a 30-year sentence at the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility, while Brister is serving a 15-year sentence at the Jefferson/Franklin County Correctional Facility. They both were sentenced on a homicide/murder charge, according to the Mississippi Department of Corrections’ website. Mitchell is still awaiting trial.

Attempts Friday to reach the district attorney and circuit court administrator for additional details were unsuccessful.