DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — A Stone Mountain man will spend the rest of his life in jail after a jury convicted him of murdering his friend during an argument, according to the DeKalb District Attorney, Sherry Boston.

Lafume Pruitt, 33, fatally shot Dominque Grant multiple times on April 24, 2024. Police who responded to the 1400 block of Diamond Key found Grant lying dead in the yard between two houses.

According to prosecutors, Pruitt told officers that he’d gotten into a struggle with his friend over a gun and shot him.

Pruitt, his brother, and Grant were in the house together before the murder, prosecutors said.

Pruitt and his brother were planning to leave to buy a truck, and the victim wanted to join them. They started arguing, then all three individuals got into a vehicle.

Both men go

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