‘Decimated my world’: Gang member learns fate in shooting that killed son of ‘Lizard Lick Towing’ star, paralyzed friend

Top inset: Alex Shirley (Dignity Memorial). Middle inset: Sophie Hagy (WRAL). Bottom inset: Nathan Jackson (Johnston County Jail). Background: The location near where Shirley was fatally shot and Hagy was left paralyzed from the waist down (WNCN).

Top inset: Alex Shirley (Dignity Memorial). Middle inset: Sophie Hagy (WRAL). Bottom inset: Nathan Christopher Jackson (Johnston County Jail). Background: The location near where Shirley was fatally shot and Hagy was left paralyzed from the waist down (WNCN).

A North Carolina gang member who was 16 years old when he fired a barrage of bullets into a car, killing one and paralyzing the victim’s friend, has learned his fate.

Nathan Christopher Jackson, 18, was sentenced to life in prison with parole possible after 40 years in the 2022 shooting that killed Alex Shirley, 21, and paralyzed his friend, Sophie Hagy. Before being sentenced, Jackson was found guilty of first-degree murder, attempted murder and discharging a firearm into a vehicle, inflicting serious injury.

Shirley’s mother, Kristi Lee, described her mixed emotions to the outcome to local NBC affiliate WRAL.

“I felt a lot of relief,” Lee said. “It’s not closure. You don’t get closure when you have to bury your child and see the gruesome things that we saw.”

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