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A man convicted in the deadly 2021 shooting in Carmichael has been sentenced to 61 years to life in prison, the District Attorney’s Office announced on Monday.
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Sacramento Superior Court Judge Ernest Sawtelle handed down the sentence to Larell Weathers, 39, on Friday after a jury convicted him on April 7 of second-degree murder, shooting at an inhabited house and possession of a firearm as a felon in the fatal shooting of Marcellus Cory Baker-Lee on June 21, 2021.
According to the District Attorney’s Office, Weathers was armed with a loaded gun when he went to a Carmichael apartment to confront a man in a dispute with his sister on the day of the shooting. Weathers forced the man to sit outside the apartment on a bench. When Baker-Lee began to open the front door from inside the apartment, Weathers shot at it, killing him.
Weathers fled the scene and the firearm used in Baker-Lee’s killing was never recovered.
The jury found true allegations that Weathers had used a firearm causing death and faced a prior conviction for residential burglary during Weathers’ trial. They also determined two true aggravating factors in the case, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
Weathers was previously charged in four separate complaints connected to three residential burglaries and two robberies, one including a firearm. He pleaded no contest to one residential burglary and one non-strike felony assault in a plea bargain with the District Attorney’s Office in 2009, agreeing to a six-year-prison sentence at half-time, according to a 2015 letter written by then-District Attorney Anne Schubert to the Board of Parole Members.
In her letter, Schubert , citing his two previous arrests within a year of being released on parole.
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“It is clear to me that Weathers will re-offend once he is released from prison,” Schubert wrote.
According to Schubert, during his second arrest, Weathers was in possession of a semiautomatic handgun in the vicinity of Del Paso Heights Elementary School when riding down the wrong side of the street on a bicycle. A patrol officer attempted to stop Weathers, who later fled on his bike and on foot before tossing his firearm into the front yard of a home. The firearm was later recovered by officers after receiving notice from the homeowners of its presence.
The investigation of Weathers’ phone after his arrest revealed photos of the same gun, images of “Blood” gang members “throwing up hand signs” and Weathers donning a red cap and red belt with stacks of cash, Schubert wrote.
In her letter, which contained redactions, Schubert also took note of Weathers’ two prior felony convictions for possession of rock cocaine and one prior conviction for felony assault with force likely to inflict great bodily injury in February 2009. Along with his residential burglary conviction, Schubert qualified Weathers’ record as a “very long and VIOLENT criminal record” that did not merit an early release.
“We stand by the position our office took back in 2015,” a spokesperson for the District Attorney’s Office wrote in a Monday statement. “Our concern was that this violent career criminal would re-offend. As such, we opposed his release under California’s “non-violent second striker” pathway for release. Unfortunately, our fears were realized.”
Weathers was released from prison on Nov. 21, 2015. He was convicted of false imprisonment stemming from a domestic violence offense on March 2, 2016, and sentenced to 32 months. He did not face another charge until the 2021 shooting in Carmichael, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
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This story was originally published June 1, 2026 at 1:56 PM.