‘I don’t forgive you’: Phil Trenary’s loved ones speak out at Richardson’s sentencing
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — It was an emotional day for the family of murdered businessman Phil Trenary after the man charged with his killing was sentenced.
Trenary, the head of the Memphis Area Chamber of Commerce, was shot and killed as he walked to his downtown home in 2018.
Quandarius Richardson, then 18, along with McKinney Wright and a juvenile were charged with shooting Trenary and trying to rob him.
“I don’t forgive you. I don’t feel sorry for you and I wish nothing but the worst for you,” Trenary’s son Pearce Trenary said Monday. “Thirty-five years is nothing and I hope you live each of those years in misery.”
Last week, Richardson accepted a plea deal and returned to court on Monday to receive his 35-year prison sentence.
The court ruled he has to serve 100 percent of his sentence before he’s eligible to be released.
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While inside the courtroom, Trenary’s loved ones had the chance to speak with the accused directly.
“You were trying to rob somebody for tangible things, but all you did was rob our family and this city,” Trenary’s daughter Brittney Rowe said. “He was my rock. He was one of the most generous people I’ve ever met.”
Trenary’s ex-wife said she hoped Richardson would do something better with his life while in prison and when he gets out.
“You can spend the next 30 years thinking about what you did and maybe, just maybe improve your life,” Bridget Trenary Galyean said.
By the time of his release, Richardson will be in his 50s.
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“Thirty-five years just isn’t enough,” Pearce Trenary said. “And unfortunately, it doesn’t do it justice. That’s what the system kind of forced us into, unfortunately. But that doesn’t make it right and that doesn’t provide closure.”
The one thing Phil Trenary’s family agrees on is that in all the time they have come to court, they didn’t feel that Richardson was remorseful.”
“I’ve observed over the past six years, I’ve observed him in the courtroom every time I go by a gut sense. And I just don’t sense that he is remorseful for his actions,” Rowe said.
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