A Florida creep, who molested a 17-year-old girl, hired his own cousin to gun the teen down in her own home in a sick murder-for-hire plot that now has them both behind bars for life, federal prosecutors said Monday.<\/p>\n
Lenard White, 36, paid his cousin Sheldon Robinson, 21, at least $6,000 to fatally shoot high school junior Isabella Scavelli and keep her from testifying about the 2023 sex assault, the US Attorney\u2019s Office in Florida\u2019s<\/a> middle district said.<\/p>\n They were both convicted on murder and conspiracy charges.<\/p>\n Prosecutors said Robinson \u201cfired a barrage of gunshots\u201d when Scavelli answered the door at her family\u2019s home on Feb. 7, 2023, killing her and wounding her mother. <\/p>\n Isabella Scavelli, 17, accused Lenard White of molesting her, so he hired his cousin to kill her, prosecutors said. Courtesy of Hernando High School<\/p>\n \u201cThe bullet that killed [Scavelli] struck her in the back as she ran away from her front door for help,\u201d prosecutors said in a release. \u201c[Her mother] was struck several times but survived. She collapsed on ground and watched her daughter die.\u201d<\/p>\n A third accomplice, Keshawn Woods, 22, previously pleaded guilty to his role in the plot.<\/p>\n The three convicts were also charged with tampering with evidence and obstructing justice, while Robinson\u2019s mom, Janet Williams, was charged with lying to investigators to try to conceal the crime.<\/p>\n