Young siphoned gasoline from an 18-wheeler truck parked in Pearl, Mississippi. When the owner of the truck confronted Young, he fled in his own 18-wheeler. According to the district court, law enforcement officers followed Young for about 40 minutes around Jackson, Mississippi, until they arrested him. In May 2010, he was convicted of felony evasion and automobile burglary and sentenced to life without parole under Mississippi’s habitual offender law. Young had previously been convicted of unarmed carjacking and grand larceny. The district court found that his prior conviction for unarmed carjacking, in which no one was injured, constituted a “violent crime” for the purposes of enhanced sentencing under Mississippi’s habitual offender law. Young, who is Black, is 46 years old.

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