A Pulaski County jury on Wednesday convicted Devontea Clay, 26, of two counts of second-degree murder in connection with the 2023 killings of two teenagers whose bodies were found near Arkansas Highway 161 south of Scott.
The verdict was returned Dec. 10, 2025, following a trial stemming from an Arkansas State Police Criminal Investigation Division investigation that began in May 2023. The victims, LaMarion Gilliam, 19, of North Little Rock, and Sucram O’Donald, 16, of Little Rock, were discovered during the early morning hours of May 23, 2023, near the highway in Pulaski County.
State police arrested Clay in July 2024 at the Pulaski County Detention Center, where he was already being held on unrelated charges, authorities said.
Clay was sentenced to 50 years in prison for each second-degree murder conviction, along with an additional 10 years on each count for a firearm enhancement. The judge ordered the sentences to run consecutively, resulting in a total sentence of 120 years in the Arkansas Department of Corrections.
In addition to the murder convictions, Clay faces pending criminal charges in five other jurisdictions along the Interstate 40 corridor across Oklahoma, Arkansas and Tennessee. Those cases include charges of first-degree battery, multiple counts of aggravated robbery, and additional firearm- and drug-related offenses.
