CHARLOTTE -- Andre Young-Johnson will spend at least the next two decades behind bars after admitting yesterday to killing 35-year-old Julian Williams at the Presley Uptown Apartments in Charlotte’s Midtown area, which lies between Uptown and Dilworth. 

Prosecutors said he'd only wanted to rob the victim, but ended up killing him in the process.

After Young-Johnson was sentenced, the victim’s mother talked about what she said to him in court.

"He took my son that I carried for nine months without even thinking about it. That's not Right. Only God can take a life. I told him he didn't know God, but he knows the devil,” said Vanessa Williams-Brown.

Young-Johnson was sentenced to a minimum 20 years in prison.