This is one of the sickest cases I've seen. Can someone explain to me how you can follow someone into the bathroom, murder them on purpose with planning, flee the scene. Then later turn themselves in and only get 3 years of probation? Not a single day of prison time! WTF! Am I missing something?

On a Sunday morning in August 2015, 26-year-old Donte Woodson went into a QuikTrip on the 2700 block of Dunn Road in St. Louis County and entered the store restroom. Moments later gunshots rang out; Woodson emerged and collapsed in the parking lot with a fatal gunshot wound to his left side. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.

The shooter was identified as 63-year-old businessman Silver Franklin, who owned an ATM service company. Franklin followed Woodson into the restroom after alleging Woodson had stolen $20,000 from him about seven weeks earlier. He left the scene but turned himself in the next day and was identified by surveillance footage and his own admission.

Franklin was initially charged with first-degree murder and held on a $1,000,000 cash-only bond. The first-degree murder charge was later dropped; Franklin pleaded guilty to second-degree involuntary manslaughter and received three years probation. Woodson’s family, including his father Robert Beene and his mother Ithiwa, expressed anguish and frustration at the outcome, noting Donte was the third of Ithiwa’s sons killed by gun violence in St. Louis.