ATLANTA — A Fulton County jury convicted a former McDonald’s employee of murder in the deadly drive-by shooting of a co-worker, a crime prosecutors say stemmed from a workplace argument days earlier.
Prosecutors say Devin Riley shot and killed Quintavious Clark in the parking lot of a McDonald’s while Clark was on his lunch break.
Judge Kevin Farmer sentenced Riley to life without parole plus 50 years.
The shooting, which was captured on security cameras, happened after Clark became involved in a verbal dispute with a female manager at the restaurant days earlier.
That woman manager was in a relationship with the defendant.
Prosecutors say Riley returned to the restaurant two days later seeking revenge.
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According to prosecutors, Riley rented a vehicle and drove through the McDonald’s drive-thru while Clark was sitting in the parking lot on break.
Investigators say Riley rolled down a window and opened fire.
Prosecutors say East Point police used geolocation tracking from the rental car to track the route the car took from the apartment of another girlfriend of Riley’s, not the one from McDonald’s, to a stop where he removed the license plate, to the McDonald’s and back to the girlfriend’s apartment.
“I guess he thinks he’s done something smart by taking the tags off, but it’s rented car and it has a tracker on it. It was a very stupid crime,” said Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis.
“They’re trying to say that just because it’s me and I’m there and I got the car, it is me,” Riley said.
A prosecutor said Riley maintained he wasn’t in the car and his face could not be seen in the security video of the crime. But she believes a video jail call featuring Riley talking helped the convince the jury the right man was on trial.
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