Life Sentence for Murder
Posted/updated on: August 27, 2011 at 7:57 am
SMITH COUNTY — A Whitehouse man is sentenced Thursday to life in prison for murder. Sharieff Hussein Dean, 60, will have to serve at least 30 years of that sentence before he is eligible for parole. Authorities say on July 5th of last year, Dean fatally shot and beat his brother-in-law, Ronnie Kemp, because he thought he was a drug informant for the police department.
Dean and Kemp reportedly sold marijuana and cocaine together and had lived together, along with Dean’s 20-year-old daughter, Amie. She was arrested in September 2010 on capital murder charges but has not been indicted. She’s since been released on a $100,000 bond. Dean had been sentenced to 75 years in 1992 for possession of a controlled substance. He was paroled after serving 16 years.
