A jury last Friday found Cedrick “Woogie” Salter, 30, guilty of the September 2009 shooting death of his girlfriend, Saquanda Simon, 29. On Thursday, Judge Emmett Battles sentenced Salter to life in prison.

Saquanda Simon

Salter was found guilty of shooting Simon twice as she held one of their twins in the hallway of her Grant Park home. She was the mother of four children.

An attorney for Salter had said the shooting was an accident and not premeditated murder.

Salter was once a popular DJ in the area and a member of a group known as the U-Haul Boyz.