Justice Served: Life Sentence for Starlight Drive-in Shooter

A DeKalb County Superior Court Judge sentenced Quentric S. Williams to life in prison Wednesday for the murder of Mitt-Chai Lenix, the Georgia National Guardsman and medic he shot to death last year.

Williams, 32, received an additional 15 years on top of his life sentence, meaning he will die prison.

Lenix, 28, was on a date at the Starlight Six Drive-in Theatre May 15, 2012. Investigators said he had car trouble and approached Williams' car to seek help with a jumpstart.

Williams, who was convicted last week, said he shot Lenix, an award-winning martial arts expert, because he thought he was reaching for a gun.

But his self-defense argument seemed weakened by the fact that he fled the scene, led police on a car chase through DeKalb and Gwinnett counties, and finally crashed his vehicle on Lilburn Stone Mountain Road near Old Tucker Road.

He was later arrested was at the Sun Suites hotel at the corner of Steve Reynolds Boulevard and Club Drive near Duluth.

Williams has already spent time in state prison on drug possession charges including for:

• Cocaine possession arrest in Gwinnett County on March 1, 2000
• Marijuana possession arrest in Gwinnett County on April 6, 1999
• Cocaine possession arrest in Gwinnett County on April 6, 1999

Williams was sentenced to prison twice and served terms from Aug. 19, 2009 through March 23, 2011. Another sentence ran from July 13, 2000 to July 13, 2004.

His most recent stay was in Dooly State Prison, a medium security facility in Unadilla, Ga.

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