Former Fresno State star Terry Pettis gets life for murder
Former Fresno State basketball player Terry Pettis was sentenced to life in prison without parole on Tuesday for the murder of a teenage woman in a botched drug robbery, The Fresno Bee reported.Pettis, 21, was convicted of first-degree murder and armed robbery in the death of Rene Shannon Abbott, a Fresno City College student who was behind the wheel of a car while her boyfriend sold marijuana in the seat next to her.
Pettis shoved a handgun through the open driver’s window and demanded the drugs, witnesses said. The gun fired when Abbott, 18, tried to drive away.
In the words of fellow Californian and murderer Robert “Baretta” Blake - Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time.
