Greenwood, MS – Darius Sims pled guilty on August 14, 2025, in front of Leflore County Circuit Court Judge Carol White-Richard for his involvement in the shooting death of Johnny Cage.
Sims was originally indicted by the Leflore County Grand Jury for Conspiracy and Capital Murder and chose to plead guilty to the lesser-included offense of Second-Degree Murder as well as the Conspiracy. Under Mississippi law, Second Degree Murder carries a minimum sentence of twenty (20) years and a maximum of forty (40) years in the Mississippi Department of Corrections.
Judge White-Richard sentenced Sims to five (5) years to serve in the Mississippi Department of Corrections on the Conspiracy charge. He was also sentenced on the Second-Degree Murder charge to forty (40) years to be served as thirty (30) years to serve in the Mississippi Department of Corrections with the remaining ten (10) years to be suspended upon completion of five (5) years supervised probation. The two sentences are to run concurrently with each other.
The case against Sims was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney Amanda Sturniolo Langford who stated: “We’re one-third of the way to getting justice for Johnny Cage and his family, but the work is not done yet. I hope that this sentence brings the family one step closer to closure.”
Sims’s co-defendants Terry Williams, Jr. and James Cason are set to go to trial on July 21, 2025.