A man convicted last month of shooting a couple in a pickup truck in front of a Marrero home in 2022 was given back-to-back life sentences in a Jefferson Parish court Wednesday, Jefferson Parish District Attorney Paul Connick's Office said.

A jury convicted Michael A. Harris, 36, on Aug. 1 of two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of David Sumera, 36, and Alexxis Eymard, 26.

Authorities say Harris, of Terrytown, was riding in the back seat of the pickup truck Sumera and Eymard were driving to a house on Bay Adams Drive on Sept. 24, 2022.

Harris shot Sumera and Emyard in the back of the head shortly after they pulled into the driveway during a meeting authorities say was drug related.

Surveillance video showed a man, later identified as Harris, get out of truck with a T-shirt

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