Man sentenced to 240 years in jail for his part in robbery which left four dead

Officers walk out of the apartment complex where four people, one woman and three men, were found shot dead (Grace Hollars/The Indianapolis Star via AP, File)

A man convicted of four counts of murder and other charges in the fatal Indianapolis shootings of three young men and a young woman was sentenced on Friday to 240 years in prison.

Lasean Watkins also was found guilty in March of felony murder and robbery resulting in serious bodily injury in the February 2020 shooting deaths of three men: Marcel Wills, 20; Braxton Ford, 21; and Jalen Roberts, 19; and a woman, Kimari Hunt, 21, according to a news release.