{"id":330865,"date":"2026-07-06T16:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330865\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T16:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:46:09","slug":"man-sentenced-to-20-years-for-pistol-whipping-killing-coconut-grove-grandfather-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330865\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 20 years for pistol-whipping, killing Coconut Grove grandfather \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A man caught on camera pistol-whipping and fatally shooting a longtime Coconut Grove resident<\/a> pleaded guilty Monday to the killing.<\/p>\n

Forty-year-old Albert Sistrunk accepted a plea deal and was sentenced to 20 years in state prison followed by 10 years of probation.<\/p>\n

Investigators say the victim, 57-year-old Christopher Jones, was riding his bicycle along Southwest 37th Avenue when Sistrunk pulled up in an SUV.<\/p>\n

Surveillance video captured Sistrunk pistol-whipping Jones before firing a gun. Jones collapsed almost immediately after being struck.<\/p>\n

The video also shows at least two people walking or riding by the victim\u2019s body without stopping to help. It wasn\u2019t until a third passerby arrived that a crowd began gathering around Jones. Police arrived shortly afterward.<\/p>\n

Authorities say Sistrunk fled the scene, but the SUV he was allegedly driving was later found parked on the grass in front of a home on Southwest 299th Street.<\/p>\n

Court records state that Sistrunk was wearing clothing similar to what appeared in the surveillance footage, and investigators found blood stains on those clothes.<\/p>\n

Jones was a well-known figure in Coconut Grove. During Monday\u2019s hearing, members of his family told Sistrunk they forgave him, but they also asked why he had to shoot.<\/p>\n

Sistrunk did not want to speak during sentencing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The family said Jones leaves behind a son, a police officer, who is grieving the loss of his father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man caught on camera pistol-whipping and fatally shooting a longtime Coconut Grove resident pleaded guilty Monday to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,2033],"class_list":["post-330865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news","tag-only-on-6"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}