Jury Reaches Verdict in Penalty Phase — All Four Men Convicted in Julio Foolio Murder Sentenced to Life in Prison Without Parole**

Charles “Julio Foolio” Jones Jr. was shot in a Tampa hotel parking lot on June 23, 2024, after a birthday celebration. Four men went to trial in Hillsborough County: Isaiah Chance, Sean Gathright, Davion Murphy, Rashad Murphy.

May 8, 2026: the jury came back guilty on first-degree premeditated murder after about eight hours. The state asked for death. May 15: the same jury recommended life without parole instead. June 22: Judge Michelle Sisco imposed it. Concurrent time on conspiracy and attempted murder counts. Life is the number that matters.

Alicia Andrews, charged with them, had already been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 15 years. Chance told the judge that split was not fair. The judge noted Andrews had pointed at him at her trial.

Statements before the sentence. Chance: it ain’t worth it. The dissing, the beefing, the shooting. Traffic tickets to death-penalty paperwork overnight. Gathright: remorse to the family, streets are not the way, an 18-year-old cannot rent a car but can get life. Rashad Murphy: I love everybody. Davion shorter.

Foolio’s mother had already spoken after the guilt verdict. The sister’s testimony earlier in the case — childhood photos, the boy before the name — sat in the same room as the penalty decision. The jury heard all of it and still said life, not death.

Jacksonville drill made the beef public for years. The parking lot made it a homicide file. Four convictions closed the male defendants’ case. Appeals can still be filed. The sentence as of June 22 is life without parole for each of them.

The graphic is the four in court clothes and Foolio in the center circle. The headline runs the penalty phase into the sentence. Accurate enough: the jury chose life, the judge signed life. That is what “verdict in penalty phase” became when the clerk read it and the bench followed it.