An Arkansas State Police investigation has resulted in a combined 120-year prison sentence for a man convicted in the 2023 double murder of two teenagers near Scott in Pulaski County.
On Wednesday, December 10, 2025, a Pulaski County jury found Devontea Clay, 26, guilty of two counts of Second-Degree Murder in the deaths of LaMarion Gilliam, 19, of North Little Rock, and Sucram O’Donald, 16, of Little Rock. The victims were discovered in the early morning hours of May 23, 2023, near Arkansas Highway 161 south of Scott.
The case began when the Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division opened an investigation into the killings. Special agents later arrested Clay in July 2024 at the Pulaski County Detention Center, where he was being held on unrelated charges.
Clay was sentenced to 50 years for each murder count, along with an additional 10 years for a firearms enhancement on each charge. The judge ordered all sentences to run consecutively, resulting in a total sentence of 120 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
In addition to the Pulaski County conviction, Clay faces pending criminal charges in five other jurisdictions along the Interstate 40 corridor in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee, including First-Degree Battery, multiple counts of Aggravated Robbery, and additional firearm and drug offenses.
