Final Carr Murder Defendant Sentenced To 40 Years

CARTERSVILLE, GA -- The final defendant tried in the April 2015 killing of Robert Ashley Carr has been sentenced for her part in that incident as well as an armed robbery at a hotel just a month after the murder.

Stephanie Fawn Gardner pleaded guilty to the charge of party to the crime of armed robbery and aggravated assault of Carr, who was found shot to death during the early morning hours of April 7, 2015, in a parking lot on U.S. 411.

Gardner was sentenced to a total of 40 years, 12 of which she has to serve incarcerated and the rest on probation.

She also entered a guilty plea to the charge of party to the crime of armed robbery and aggravated assault in the May 7, 2015, robbery at the Deluxe Inn in Cartersville.

For that incident, Gardner was sentenced to a total of 20 years, 12 of which she will have to serve behind bars and the rest on probation.

Gardner was the final defendant charged in connection to Carr's murder to be sentenced.

Fellow defendants Arrick Deandrae Camps and Bernard Mario Dixon were sentenced to life in prison plus five years with the possibility of parole.

Elizabeth Morgan Kelly, who pleaded guilty to party to a crime of armed robbery and aggravated assault, also received a total of 40 years, 10 of which she will have to serve in prison. Rebecca Leeann Dover pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit robbery and received a 10-year sentence, five of which she will have to serve in prison.

Gardner, along with fellow defendants Lorenzo Lamar Furr and James Dustin Stinson, were arrested and charged in an attack on the owner of the hotel at 235 South Dixie Avenue.

The victim told police the attack happened after he had to evict Gardner from the hotel. She initially left the hotel, but later returned to retrieve her belongings, according to a previous Patch report.

The hotel owner told police he was ambushed by a suspect who grabbed him by the neck and produced a stun-gun. That male, according to a Cartersville police incident report, robbed the victim of $520 in cash and fled the scene.

Police were able to link the three suspects and Gardner was booked into jail a week after the May robbery.

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