Two get life sentences in ’15 murder

Two men were sentenced to life in prison yesterday for murdering 21-year-old Kenny Lamour as he worked on a Jamaica Plain snow shoveling crew in 2015.

Judge Peter Lauriat’s sentence came with the possibility of parole after 20 years for Donte Henley, 27, and Josiah Zachery, 21, who were convicted last week of second-degree murder.

But Lauriat ordered Zachery, who also was convicted of unlawful possession of a firearm and assault with a dangerous weapon, to serve an additional four to five years in prison after he completes the sentence for his murder conviction.

Suffolk District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said the sentences were appropriate, but he added, “we’re mindful that they can never fill the hole in Ms. Lamour’s (the victim’s mother’s) heart or the empty seat at her family’s table. I only hope she can take some satisfaction in knowing that justice was done on Kenny’s behalf, and that other young men see the anguish this crime caused when they consider picking up a gun.”

Although Henley and Lamour were known to be affiliated with rival gangs, they were on the same snow shoveling crew on Feb. 11, 2015, after assuring a supervisor they could work together, prosecutors said.

Text messages, however, showed that Henley told Zachery to come to the work site with a gun. Zachery found Lamour on Centre Street and shot him in the head, prosecutors said. As Zachery ran off, they said, he fired a shot at a police officer but was arrested nearby.