In 2010, A Georgia State University student was one of two men killed in a gated apartment complex in Southeast Atlanta on Sunday.
The student, 21-year-old Samuel Blizzard, Jr. of Virginia, and 26-year-old Calvin Streater of Atlanta were both shot in the head.
Police found one man in the front room and the other in a bedroom of the same unit at the Station at Richmond Hill apartments on Richmond Circle off Jonesboro Road shortly after 10 p.m. Sunday.
Anyone with information on the shootings was urged to call Crime Stoppers Atlanta at 404-577-8477.
Fast-forward to 2013 and justice is finally being served in the case.
Derrick Burden, 24, was sentenced Friday to two life sentences without the possibility of parole.
He was found guilty of shooting 21-year-old Samuel Blizzard, Jr. and 26-year-old Calvin Streater to death inside a southeast Atlanta townhouse on Sept. 5, 2010.
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Streater lived in North Carolina and was visiting Atlanta to celebrate Black Gay Pride weekend. He was shot to death in a rear bedroom. Police said Burden met Streater at a convenience store and followed him back to the townhouse to hang out for a few hours. Later that day, he returned to rob and kill the victims.
After the shootings, Burden ran to a nearby neighborhood, where police recovered a bag containing the murder weapon and Blizzard's laptop. They used DNA from a cigarette butt found at the crime scene to link Burden to the murders.
Burden was charged with murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, armed robbery and weapons charges in the two deaths.