‘Rot in Hell’: Families have no mercy for accused killer in Cobra Bar murders
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The families of two murder victims faced their children’s accused killer in court Friday, hoping it’s the end of their cries for justice in the case.
A sentencing hearing was held for Demontrey Logsdon, one of the two men accused in a double murder outside of a popular East Nashville bar in 2018 that claimed the lives of 30-year-old Jaime Sarrantonio and 33-year-old Brandon Teal.
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Both Logsdon and Horace Williamson III were previously sentenced to life in prison without parole for their roles in the murders. Friday’s sentencing hearing for Logsdon was regarding 9 additional charges in the case.
Logsdon, who was 20 years old at the time of the murders, appeared to be listening intently as the families recounted how that night in 2018 forever changed their lives. They called his actions pure evil.
“My son didn’t have a chance to lay down on the ground. He didn’t have a chance to pull his things out of his pockets,” Teresa Teal, Brandon’s “bonus mom,” said on the stand. “He didn’t have a chance to beg for his life because he was shot almost immediately.”
Their cries for justice have been ongoing for nearly six years after their son was killed on his 33rd birthday.
Jaime’s mother also took the stand, playing video of her daughter laughing and hanging out with her friends just hours before she was robbed, sexually assaulted and shot in the stomach.
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Surveillance video captured the chilling moments — evidence that will forever haunt these mourning families and the survivors.
“These individuals do not deserve to live on the streets with society,” Jaime’s mom, Robin Fisher Sarrantonio, pleaded with Judge Khadija Babb. They have clearly shown no remorse or respect for human life. Getting a jail sentence without the possibility of parole is the right sentence, so there is no way they could repeat these heinous crimes.”
At times during their testimony, the families bravely looked Logsdon in the eyes and shared their heartache and anger.
“They need to rot in hell and suffer the same consequences that they put us through, live their long life in prison, obsessing over and over, why did they do it,” Fisher said. “As we obsess, ‘Why did this have to happen to our family?'”
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Judge Babb said that she would consider Friday’s testimony and make a written decision on the sentencing at a later date. A motion for a new trial will be heard in late August for both defendants.
“I will never, never, forgive the defendant Demontrey Logsdo for taking my son,” Teal said. “I will always despise the man that chose evil over good.”
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