Midtown parking deck shooter sentenced to life

8:14 AM, Feb 1, 2013   |    comments
Nkosi Thandiwe (Courtesy Atlanta Police)
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ATLANTA -- A 23-year-old man has been sentenced to life without parole plus 65 years in prison for a shooting at a Midtown parking deck.

Nkosi Thandiwe was sentenced Thursday in Fulton County Superior Court.

Thandiwe was found guilty of killing 26-year-old Brittany Watts and shooting two other women in the parking deck of the Proscenium building on July 15, 2011.

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Police said Lauren Garcia and Tiffany Ferenczy were shot as Thandiwe fled the parking deck at 1170 Crescent Avenue. Garcia was paralyzed.

Thandiwe turned himself in to police a few hours after the shooting.