Killer receives 120-year term

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A judge sentenced a man to 120 years in prison for killing a cross-dressing teenager and his female friend.
Paul Moore, 21, maintained his innocence Wednesday in Marion County Superior Court as he was sentenced on charges of murder, arson and criminal confinement in the shooting deaths of Brandie Coleman, 18, and Gregory Johnson, 17.
Prosecutors said Moore shot both victims in the front of the head with a .45-caliber handgun when he discovered that Johnson, who dressed as a woman and answered to the name Nireah, was not female.
Motive allegations
Investigators alleged that Moore killed Johnson because he felt his sexuality was threatened by an intimate encounter the men had. Coleman was killed because she was Johnson's friend and they had double dated, prosecutors said.
Their bodies were found July 23, 2003, in the back seat of a burned-out Jeep on the city's northeast side.
Another sentenced
Moore's half brother, Clarence McGee, 26, was sentenced to 10 years in prison on charges of arson, assisting a criminal and obstruction of justice. McGee also had pleaded innocent.
Defense attorneys argued the killings had been the work of a third man.
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