DECATUR, Ga. — A former DeKalb County sheriff's deputy was sentenced to back-to-back life sentences in the killings of his wife and a day laborer on Friday morning.
Derrick Yancey, 51, was found guilty in the shooting death of his wife, Linda Yancey, and Marcial Cax-Puluc in 2008.
Channel 2 Action News reporter Jeff Dore was in the courtroom and said Yancey did not react when the verdicts were read two weeks ago. During deliberations, jurors briefly halted the session to hear a 911 tape again and review a video of the crime scene.
Prosecutors told jurors that Yancey killed his wife, then Cax-Puluc. Following the deaths, they said he made up a story about Cax-Puluc, a Guatemalan immigrant, shooting Linda Yancey during a robbery attempt. Derrick Yancey told police he shot Cax-Puluc in self-defense.
The trial was delayed last year when Yancey cut off his ankle monitor and fled to Belize in Central America.
Yancey was found guilty on all counts -- including two counts of malice murder.
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