Everett road-rage shooter gets 22 years for 'execution'
EVERETT — The murder of Steven Whitemarsh was “an execution, plain and simple,” a judge said at his killer’s sentencing Friday.
“I’m quite convinced that if you were released from prison, you would do this again,” Judge Millie Judge told the defendant, Simeon Berkley, 75.
Judge sentenced Berkley to 22 years behind bars for a road-rage shooting in Everett that killed Whitemarsh on July 6, 2019.
Berkley claimed self-defense, but this month a Snohomish County Superior Court jury found him guilty of second-degree murder with a deadly weapon.
Thirty years earlier, Berkley claimed self-defense in the shooting of another driver, in California. After a near-crash on I-8, Berkley shot and paralyzed Richard Durkin, then 31, of San Diego County. A jury acquitted Berkley of attempted murder, attempted manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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