![]() Shaniqua Pierre, 19, of Deptford Dennis Welch, 20, of Camden and Keenan Wideman, 18, of Pennsauken. They are Lance Fulton, 20, of Camden David Hardwick, 18, of Pennsauken Clive Hinds, 19, of Maple Shade Peter Leonce, 18, of Queens, N.Y. She was sentenced last August to 20 years in state prison.ĭarryl Pierre, 20, of Merchantville, pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter in April and was sentenced to 30 years in prison.Ĭourt proceedings are still pending in the cases of the seven other defendants. The first, Shatara Carter, 15, of Camden, was waived to adult court and pleaded guilty to manslaughter for Huff’s death. ![]() Powell was the third of the 10 suspects to plead guilty. Huff, a senior cosmetology student at the Burlington County Institute of Technology’s Westampton campus, was beaten with a chair, stabbed, and suffocated with a plastic bag and rope. He also admitted to ordering a co-defendant to beat up Huff and that he then sanctioned her murder. Powell told the judge he shot Hawkins six times, killing the 2005 Rancocas Valley Regional High School graduate. Looking for parties events in Lewistown Whether youre a local, new in town, or just passing through, youll be sure to find something on Eventbrite that piques your interest. Huff, who was dating Hawkins, was a bystander who was killed to keep her from reporting Hawkins’ death.ĭuring the plea hearing, Powell told Superior Court Judge Irvin Snyder that Hawkins was already being beaten by several of his co-defendants when he arrived at the home and that he found Hawkins bound and beaten in an upstairs room. Ten people have been charged with the Berkley Street slayings, which prosecutors have said were the result of a gang-related dispute between Hawkins and several of the suspects. Under the terms, prosecutors will recommend that Powell be sentenced to concurrent terms of 30 and 20 years in prison for both incidents. Both men survived gunshot wounds.Ī spokesman for the Camden County Prosecutor’s Office said both pleas were part of an agreement with prosecutors. Powell also pleaded guilty to two counts of attempted murder for shooting brothers Tyee and Tomeik Harris the day before at a River Line station at 36th Street in Pennsauken. Their bodies were discovered three days later after police received a tip. 22, 2010, inside a Berkley Street home and buried in the backyard. Kuasheim Powell, 25, of Camden, pleaded guilty to two counts of murder in the slaying of Muriah Huff, 18, of Cinnaminson, and Michael Hawkins, 23, of Mount Holly, authorities said. CAMDEN - A Bloods gang leader pleaded guilty Wednesday to taking part in and ordering the torture and murder of two Burlington County residents last year in a Camden row house.
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