Gruesome video of a gunman firing four shots into the head of a dying man lying on the floor of a Plymouth store in 2021 was instrumental in the second-degree murder conviction last week of 40-year-old Brandon Jarmar Carter in Washington County Superior Court.

Carter, formerly of Roper, was sentenced to a prison term of 20-25 years by Pitt County Judge Marvin Blount, who indicated Carter would receive credit for time-served in the county detention, where he has been held since his arrest in May 2021...