Eison receives 2 life sentences plus 40 years for murders

Aubrey Tremaine "Gangster" Eison of 1067 Wabash St. was sentenced June 16 in Dyer County Circuit Court. He was classified as a violent offender who must serve 100 percent of the sentences, and was ordered to serve them consecutively.

A jury found him guilty May 15 on two charges of first-degree murder and one charge of especially aggravated robbery. He was accused of killing Jeffrey Scott "Snapp" McMullin, 32, and Cristin Robinson, 22, and stealing McMullin's money on Aug. 13, 2007.

His co-conspirator - Cedric Lamar "Big Bo" Moses, 32, 209 St. Joseph Ave. - received three concurrent 25-year sentences. As Eison's alleged driver that night, he was convicted on two counts of facilitation of first-degree murder and one count of especially aggravated robbery.

A third man, Ewannn Dwayne Armstrong, testified for the prosecution and is currently awaiting his next circuit court appearance.

According to testimony during the trial, Eison planned the robbery and wanted to make sure McMullin was home when it happened. Eison and McMullin were cousins but were close enough to feel like brothers. After taking McMullin's money and drugs, Eison reportedly shot McMullin three times in the back and then executed Robinson. McMullin's 5-year-old son escaped and ran to a babysitter's home.

The robbery and murder apparently were acts of retaliation. According to trial testimony and court documents, Eison was angry that McMullin failed to contribute enough money to bail him out of jail. Armstrong testified that Eison said: "I told (McMullin) I was going to put M gang (an abbreviation for murder gang) down when I was in jail."

Robinson, a friend of McMullin's, had been hired to paint the walls and was watching the boy when the robbery happened.

During the June 16 sentencing hearing, Robinson's mother, Norma Scobey, testified. In a written statement, she asked the court to consider sentencing Eison and Moses to two life sentences each. As a result of her daughter's death, Scobey wrote that she had to be placed on anti-depression medication and her mother was hospitalized for heart problems linked to stress.

"There's no way to put into words the loss, the pain and the heart break that my family and I have lived these past two years," Scobey wrote. "We go on with our lives from day to day with a missing link and hole in our hears. Christmas, Thanksgiving and other holidays will never be the same again without our Cristin.

"Cristin Lynn Robinson was only 22 years old when you took her from us. She had just started living her life. She had a job, her own apartment, was just starting to go forward in her life. Always thinking about others even down to her last breath on earth, wrapping her scared, shaking arms around a small boy protecting him from harm. For that she is a hero."