Judge Richard E. Moore awarded 28-year-old Reginald Eugene Lindsay Jr. 10 years in prison without parole for the Oct. 14 shooting in downtown Charlottesville that killed 48-year-old Danny “Dae Dae” Hall.

“I hate that we’re killing each other,” Karen Johnson Hall, Hall’s wife, testified, according to a city statement.

Sentencing was originally scheduled for late September but was rescheduled, according to court records. The records show this was the final verdict for the six murders, all but one by gunfire, reported in the city in 2023.

“The sentence is a painful reminder of the life-altering consequences for those who choose to commit an act of violence with a firearm and the victims they leave behind,” Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney Joe Platania said in the city’s statement.

■ On Jan. 28, Tadashi Demetrius Keyes killed 36-year-old anti-violence worker Eldridge “Skeeta” Smith while Smith was sitting in his vehicle in Fifeville. After a three-day trial that found Keyes guilty, he was sentenced to life in prison.

■ On Feb. 22, Raymaqua Antonio Nicholas killed 20-year-old college student Nicklous Gregory Pendleton in a pickup truck on Hardy Drive. Nicholas pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 23-year active sentence.

■ On March 4, Orlando Wendell Allen Jr. killed. the 20-year-old Kenyan immigrant judge Kigen Kilel inside the Sunshine Supermarket. Allen pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 23-year active sentence.

■ On March 18, Lakori Rayquan Brooks killed 26-year-old University of Virginia entrepreneur Cody Brian Smith in a parking lot in the Corner shopping district. Brooks pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and received a 26-year active sentence.

■ On Sept. 7, Tabatha Lynn Head, also known as Tabatha Dotson, fatally stabbed her 53-year-old boyfriend, retired railroad worker Brian Patrick Kiser, inside the 11th Street Garage near the UVa Medical Center. Head pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and received a six-year active sentence.

There were two other murders in the city in 2023 that were not prosecuted:

■ On Jan. 8, under fire, Jose Omar Rivas Sorto fired at the two men accused of kidnapping his wife, killing one, 20-year-old Osvaldo Lopez Hernandez of Austin, Texas, and wounding the other. The Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office deemed Sorto’s actions justified and declined to press charges.

■ On February 28, Albemarle County police, following a standoff at the Red Roof Inn, shot and killed 44-year-old fugitive Billy James Sites. The Charlottesville Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office deemed the police action justified and declined to press charges.

That same year, Albemarle County, which surrounds Charlottesville, reported six murders, four of them from gunfire, according to an official Daily Progress report.

In the Market Street case, police alleged in a recently unsealed search warrant affidavit that Hall, according to his wife, atypically went out that night shortly after 9:30 p.m. Around 2 a.m., he and others were inside the since-closed Soul Food Joint restaurant on Market Street, which he and others reportedly referred to by another name: “Murmurs.” Then he went out.

Police captured video from the nearby Paramount Theater showing muzzle flashes at 2:58 a.m. near a parked white Lexus.

“Hall fell back behind the white Lexus,” wrote Charlottesville Detective CW Raines.

What happened next may explain why the judge, upon receiving the guilty plea, expressed some surprise that the case was resolved with a manslaughter conviction, the least severe sentence possible in a murder case. According to Raines, the video showed:

“The shooting continued around the vehicle onto East Market Street. . . . He walked up to Hall, extended his arm and shot Hall again multiple times.”

Raines went on to say that several witnesses claimed that Lindsay, whose street name is “Duck,” used cocaine that night. Raines also said cartridges were found near an alley east of Third Street Northeast while six more bullet casings were found near the Lexus.

Raines reported that all the casings were 10mm, a caliber Lindsay was known to carry, and that while Hall had a holstered weapon that night, his gun was a .380.

Before Hall died at UVa Hospital, an officer reported seeing one gunshot wound to one arm, another to the stomach area and two to the head.

In court in May, Platania addressed why he agreed to a plea to manslaughter. He then explained that the video was so grainy that it only showed what happened but not who did it, and he revealed that at least three people saw what happened but refused to provide information.

“The almost total lack of cooperation from individuals with knowledge of this incident led to the case being resolved by a guilty plea to manslaughter,” he later said in a prepared statement.

One alleged witness, 32-year-old Alfred Cortez “AC” Bright, who recently received a 60-month sentence for an unrelated federal firearms possession charge, had a clear idea and told others what he saw, according to Platania.

As for the victim, Hall grew up in Fluvanna County, was the father of 10 and “loved to have a good time,” according to his obituary.

Coincidentally, an adult daughter of Hall’s was inside the Soul Food Joint getting food and heard the shots. After crouching for cover, Raines wrote, Chaniya Brown got out and applied pressure to her father’s stomach wound and held his head until first aid arrived.