Man gets 3 consecutive life terms for 3 killings in Bowie

A man who pleaded guilty to killing three men at the Blue Sunday Bar in Bowie in January of 2017 was sentenced Monday afternoon to three consecutive life terms. Prosecutors said in Prince George’s County Circuit Court that Karlief Moye of Silver Spring was a bartender at Blue Sunday and got into an argument over $2,100 in compensation. Moye returned shortly after the argument and shot Jin Chen, Sherwood Morgan and Xue Xin Zou in the bar’s office, prosecutors said, then took money from a desk and fled. Judge Dorothy Engel said a surveillance video shows Moye callously stepping over a body to grab some cash after the shooting, a contrast to the loving man full of life friends and families painted him as during sentencing Monday. He unsuccessfully tried to kill himself after the shooting, Moye said during sentencing. Moye’s defense called on two experts,