Amateur Middleweight champion and won the Golden Gloves and USA Boxing titles.
On December 12, 2000, after finishing a workout in a St. Louis gym,[1] Lathon was shot and killed execution-style by a masked gunman.
Ahmad Adisa, age 27, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison without parole.
[3] At his trial, evidence suggested that Adisa was hired to kill Lathon for a $10,000 payment, though no one else has been charged in the case.
Assistant Circuit Attorney Dwight Warren told jurors that Lathon was killed in retaliation for his suspected involvement in the kidnapping and torture of a drug dealer in 1999.