Georgia Supreme Court upholds convictions in 2017 Savannah triple murder

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WTOC) -The Supreme Court of Georgia has affirmed the convictions of Keith Lamont Marrow, who was found guilty of killing three people in Savannah in 2017.

Marrow was a member of a Bloods gang subset, called the Eastside Gangster Bloods.

Each of these 3 victims were shot repeatedly inside of an apartment at 1110 E. 31st St. that April.

Marrow admitted to killing those 3 people, but says he did so out of self-defense. He originally planned to testify in his defense, but decided not to during trial.

Those victims are 31-year-old Courtney German, 24-year-old William Mullins III, and Shayla Curtis, who was just 18 at the time.

Their families held a vigil that April to remember them.

Although Marrow said all 3 people he killed were in the same gang, police have confirmed Shayla Curtis had no relation to any gang.

Marrow was simply staying with German at the time of the murders.

Marrow was convicted 2 years later, in 2019 of three counts of malice murder and multiple firearm offenses in the deaths of these 3 victims.

He was sentenced to three concurrent life sentences without parole plus additional prison time for weapons charges.

According to this document from the GA Supreme Court, investigators found shell casings at the scene that matched a pistol recovered after Marrow crashed an SUV in South Carolina during a police chase. His fingerprints were also found on a cup at the crime scene.

Marrow admitted to police that he shot the victims, saying he had used drugs, felt paranoid, and believed fellow gang members were planning to kill him. You can find an article referencing his gang ties here.

On his appeal, Marrow argued the jury should have been instructed that voluntary manslaughter is a lesser offense, but the justices ruled the evidence did not show he acted under ‘sudden violent passion provoked by the victims’.

The court noted his own statements pointed instead to fear and suspicion.

Marrow also claimed his trial attorneys were ineffective.

The court found that even if some decisions were questionable, ‘they did not prejudice the case because the evidence against Marrow was strong — including his own admissions and the forensic findings’.

The GA justices rejected his other claims that multiple attorney errors led to an unfair trial or that his post-trial lawyer failed to properly work his appeal.

The ruling leaves Marrow’s convictions and sentences intact.

He is still serving his multiple life sentences at Hays State Prison.

You can find the full release for GA’s Supreme Court here.