Rapides Parish Judge Greg Beard has sentenced Kayla Giles to life in prison plus 30 years for second-degree murder and obstruction of justice in the September 2018 shooting death of her estranged husband, Thomas Coutee, Jr., during a custody exchange in a Walmart parking lot.
Giles will serve both sentences consecutively due to the separate nature of both crimes.
”We think that the judge’s sentence was appropriate,” said Assistant Attorney General Joseph Lebeau. “I thought he did an excellent job of reviewing the facts of the case and the evidence that was presented in the trial. It was an appropriate sentence based on the facts in this case and the conduct of the defendant.”
Before Beard handed down the sentence, Coutee Jr.’s family took to the witness stand to give victim impact statements.
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