Sniper receives 100-year term for child's death

Jet, March 28, 1994

Anthony Garrett, the Chicago man convicted of the sniper murder of 7-year-old Dantrell Davis as he walked to school in the Cabrini Green neighborhood there, recently received a 100-year prison sentence.

Garrett, 35, a gang leader with an extensive criminal record, showed no emotion when Cook County Criminal Court Judge Earl E. Strayhorn announced the sentence.

Strayhorn, who could have sentenced Garrett to 20 to 60 years, said he based the decision on Garrett's intent to kill, his prior criminal history and little Dantrell's age.

In 1992 Dantrell was shot in the head as he walked to school with his mother Annette Freeman.

His murder touched off an outcry against gang violence nationwide, which resulted in a gang truce. A national gang summit followed last year in Chicago (JET, April 5, 1993).