Man sentenced to 50 years in 2015 Sikeston murder

SIKESTON — A Sikeston man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison in the 2015 shooting death of another man at a Sikeston liquor store.

Antoine Harris, also known as Harris-Applewhite, was found guilty by a jury in July of second-degree murder, armed criminal action, unlawful use of a weapon and unlawful possession of a firearm after shooting 36-year-old Samuel Sanders outside West Side Liquor in December 2015. He was sentenced Tuesday.

At the trial, Scott County Prosecuting Attorney Amanda Oesch said Harris was seeking revenge and retribution because he believed Sanders stole marijuana from him several months earlier.

The two were seen fighting in a store security video that was reported lost by the Sikeston Department of Public Safety.

An investigator with the Missouri State Highway Patrol later found the evidence on a computer hard drive at an undisclosed location. The video did not show the shooting.