MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A man pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to 25 years for a 2021 murder when he shot a woman to death at a Walgreens in Parkway Village.

Gregory Morton, 53, has been charged with Second-Degree Murder and sentenced to 25 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to the fatal shooting captured on surveillance cameras.

Gregory Morton (Courtesy of Shelby County District Attorney’s Office)

The attorney’s office says that in Dec. 2021, surveillance video showed Morton pulling up next to the victim’s vehicle in a white van at the Walgreens at 3177 South Perkins.

After that, he got out of his van and started shooting through the woman’s driver’s side door and struck her multiple times.

She was transported to Regional One in critical condition, where she later died.

The woman was later identified as Juanita Washington, 60, who was also the head administrator of L.Y.E. Academy.

Morton was arrested by the U.S. Marshals Service on Mar. 25, 2022, after he was on the run in Las Vegas.