Kenneth French glared Tuesday at the man awaiting his sentence for fatally shooting French 's 2-year-old daughter in what authorities said was a revenge killing . ' I just want him to know he 's a coward . He 's a punk , ' French told the court . 'If he 'd have left my baby out of this , it would have been done a different way . ' Minutes later , Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Ulysses Boykin told Raymone Jackson , 25 , that he would spend the rest of his life in prison without parole . The sentence was mandatory . Villains : Raymone Jackson ( left ) and Raphael Hearn ( right ) were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole for the 2014 murder of a 2-year-old girl in a suburban Detroit revenge attack . Angel : Kamiya Gross,2 , pictured with her mother , was shot at a point blank range in front of her father . Mother 's grief : Raphael Hearn , seated , listens as Erica Gross gives a victim 's statement to the court during Hearn 's sentencing in the courtroom of Judge Ulysses Boykin at the Frank Murphy Hall Of Justice . Kamiya Gross was shot in the head on July 1 , 2014 , outside a house in Inkster , southwest of Detroit . French and a 13-year-old girl , Chelsea Lancaster , were wounded in the attack . Kamiya was the intended target , police initially said , in retaliation for an earlier shooting in which Jackson held the girl 's father responsible . Jackson also was sentenced to up to 45 years in prison for torture and assault with intent to murder . A jury convicted him earlier this month . Raphael Hearn also was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for first-degree murder . Prosecutors say Hearn helped Jackson plan and carry out the attack . His attorney that the defendant played no part in the killing . Kenneth French had a harsh message for Jackson 's co-defendant : 'Do yourself a favor and kill yourself because the world is not going to miss you . ' Boykin called the girl 's slaying 'one of the most heinous crimes ' he 's ever seen . River of tears : Following the sentencing of Raymone Jackson and Raphael Hearn , Wendy French , left , hugs Erica Gross outside the courtroom . Survivors : Kenneth French , Kamiya 's dad ( left ) , and family friend Chelsea Lancaster ( right ) , 13 , were wounded in the attack but survived . Erica Gross , Kamiya 's mother , sneered at Jackson . 'Whatever happens to you , you will never know how I feel , ' she said . 'Have a great life . ' When given an opportunity to speak before being sentenced , Jackson apologized to the girl 's families . ' I 'd like to say that none of this was supposed to happen , ' he said . Erica Gross brought Kamiya to her father 's home at around 3.30pm July 1 , 2014 , before heading to work . About five hours later , Inkster police received a 911 call about shots fired outside a home in the 30000 block of Carlyle Street . Kamiya Gross was shot at a point blank range and was pronounced dead at the scene . She was just 10 days shy of her third birthday , which she had been hoping to celebrate with her many cousins at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant . The toddler was shot in the head and killed while playing on the porch of her father 's Inkster , Michigan . All that 's left : A pair of pink and black sandals sit on a blood-spattered porch where a toddler was shot dead and two others were wounded . Payback : Police said the fatal attack may have been in retaliation for a shooting at a nightclub in April that left the suspect wounded . Her father , Kenneth French , was taken to a hospital in stable condition , and family friend Chelsea Lancaster , then age 12 , was hospitalized in critical condition . The victims were sitting on Kenneth French 's porch when a man , later identified as Raymone Jackson , marched up to them and opened fire . Jackson was sentenced to 11 months in the Wayne County Jail in September 2013 in a drug case while on parole for a 2010 drug conviction . He was released in March 2014 for good behavior , about three months before Kamiya was slain . Before he left jail , the Michigan Department of Corrections had the option to pick Jackson up and return him to prison as a violation of parole in the 2010 conviction , but the state declined to do so , a jail spokeswoman said last year .
ka Gross was shot in the head at point blank range in Inkster , Michigan , in July 2014 . foster 's father and a year - old childhood friend were wounded in revenge shooting . Raymone Jackson and Raphael Hearn were handed suspended sentences Tuesday for carrying out the attack . ' I just want him [ Jackson ] to know he 's a punk . He 's a punk , ' Kamiya 's father , Kenneth ##miya , told the court .