Judge Sentences Killer to Life Plus Thirty Years in Prison
By Dale Hines
Blue RAM Media/Gulf Coast News
May 21, 2025
MOBILE, Ala. A violent shooting at a busy mall in Mobile left one man dead and many in disbelief.
Patrick Vashun Lewis and an accomplish hatched a plan to rob people and take whatever they wanted by force. They had brought guns on their robbery spree and killed Bryan Maynard Jr of North Carolina just for a diamond-studded Cartier watch.
The judge said that Lewis was “fundamentally evil and inhumane” and sentenced him on Monday to life in prison plus 30 years for the killing of a man who had traveled to the area to sell his watch.
A Mobile County jury found Lewis guilty in February of shooting Maynard and prosecutors presented evidence that Lewis and two co-defendants hatched a plan to take the watch by force and that Lewis fired three times into the victim’s car in September 2021.
The victim’s mother, Jodie Maynard, spoke in court about the aguish Lewis caused and added that her family intends to move on.
“We have lives to live,” she said. “You are of no concern to me and after today will not exist.”
Mobile County Assistant District Attorney Stuart Lang called the shooting “premeditated” and recommended the life sentence.
Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood praised the sentence. He said the crime was gang-related but occurred before passage of a new criminal enterprise law targeting gangs.
Lewis said nothing when given a chance to address the court.
But his attorney said that he plans to appeal the case.
Lewis is also facing another homicide trial in a second fatal shooting where he stands accused of being involved in the deaths of Tony and Leila Lewis in a drive-by shooting in Mobile’s Happy Hill community. He is one of four people accused in that case, involving the grandparents of Mobile-born rapper Nashon “HoneyKomb Brazy” Jones.
Jury selection was set for Monday for co-defendant Albert Eugene Quinney III. But the judge postponed it amid a dispute over the prosecution’s request to amend the felony murder indictment against him. His ruling on that issue could determine whether the trial takes place this week or gets postponed.
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