Antoine sentenced to life w/o parole under Washington's three-strike violent offender law after his second murder conviction
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2025 5:23 pm
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RICHLAND, WASHINGTON - A twice-convicted killer is heading to prison for the rest of his life for shooting man in Richland two years ago.
Antoine R. “Peanut” Surge, 45, was sentenced Monday morning for killing Edree D. Thompson, 20, during an argument outside of the Columbia Park Apartments.
The jury took about a day and a half to find Surge guilty of second-degree murder. The conviction was his “third strike” under the state’s persistent offender sentencing law.
The law requires a life sentence without the possibility of parole for anyone who commits three serious violent crimes, such as murder, assault or rape.
Surge was convicted of second-degree murder in 2002 and then. shortly after his release from prison, was convicted of assault in 2019.
“I don’t think the punishment in this case is either cruel or unusual for the conduct,” Deputy Prosecutor Tyler Grandgeorge said. “When the people of Washington voted to pass the initiative that gave rise to the persistent offender statute, cases like this were exactly what they had in mind.”
Thompson’s father, Edgar Thompson, expressed frustration that Surge would bring a gun to the argument and then shoot his son in front of Edree Thompson’s young daughter.
“He should know better, have more morals than that,” Edgar Thompson said. “He’s not even a man, not even a child. He’s the scum of the Earth. He should not be let out jail. This inmate should be an inmate. That’s all he should be, an inmate number.”
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