21 years old sentenced to back-to-back life terms in 2020 muder in Berkeley.

 ST. LOUIS COUNTY, Mo. (First Alert 4) - A St. Louis County judge on Friday sentenced a St. Louis man to back-to-back life terms in prison for killing a man during a carjacking in July 2020 in Berkeley.

Ramon White, 21, was sentenced to a life term on a count of second-degree murder and another life term on a count of armed criminal action, with those sentences to run consecutively.He was also sentenced by Circuit Judge Nancy Watkins McLaughlin to an additional 15 years in prison on a count of attempted robbery and another life term on a second count of armed criminal action, with those sentences to run concurrent to the two life terms.

A jury convicted White on the four counts during a trial in November. He was accused of killing Dwight Henderson, of Berkeley, during a carjacking on July 11, 2020, at a gas station in the 8600 block of Airport Road.

The Associated Press reports Henderson spotted a man trying to steal his rental car at a gas station, ran outside and tried to grab the robber’s gun. He was then shot in the chest.

St. Louis County prosecutors said in a news release the incident was captured on surveillance video and White’s DNA was found on the driver-side door of Henderson’s vehicle. White also admitted to being at the scene and stealing other vehicles that were left running and unattended.Facebook posts by White presented at trial showed on the day of the murder, he was traveling in the same vehicle that pulled alongside Henderson’s car prior to the attempted carjacking. He was also trying to sell a handgun, which was the same type used to kill Henderson, prosecutors said.

“I pray Mr. Henderson’s family and loved ones find some closure in this substantial prison sentence,” St. Louis County Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell said.

At the age of 15, White was charged in the July 2017 death of 13-year-old Anthony Wilson Jr. The St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office dropped the charges in February 2019 after top prosecutor at the time, Kim Gardner, said key witnesses were not available, the AP reports.