HARRISBURG, PA \u2014 A Northampton County man was sentenced to life in prison without parole, plus an additional 20 to 40 years, for the 2018 killing of an 18-year-old in Bethlehem, Attorney General Dave Sunday announced.<\/p>\n
Zahmire Welcome, 27, of Whitehall, was convicted<\/a> in October by a Northampton County jury of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and kidnapping in the death of Tyrell Holmes.<\/p>\n According to prosecutors, Holmes was stabbed and set on fire in April 2018 outside an apartment complex in Bethlehem.<\/p>\n Welcome was also ordered to pay restitution to the victim\u2019s grandmother for funeral expenses.<\/p>\n Authorities said Welcome was one of four members of a group known as \u201cMoney Rules Everything\u201d involved in the killing.<\/p>\n \u201cToday\u2019s life sentence marks the final step in holding all four defendants responsible for their actions,\u201d Sunday said.<\/p>\n Three other co-defendants have also been convicted or pleaded guilty in the case.<\/p>\n Alkiohn Dunkins, 27, of Easton, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to life in prison plus 23 to 50 years.<\/p>\n Yzire Jenkins-Rowe, 28, of Collegeville, pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, conspiracy, and arson and was sentenced to 27\u00bd to 60 years.<\/p>\n Miles Harper, 27, of Allentown, pleaded guilty to aggravated arson and was sentenced to 5 to 20 years.<\/p>\n A statement from Holmes\u2019 grandmother was read in court during sentencing.<\/p>\n \u201cThe young men who took (Tyrell\u2019s) life will never truly understand the devastation they caused,\u201d the statement said.<\/p>\n The case was prosecuted by Senior Deputy Attorney General Christopher Phillips and Senior Deputy Attorney General Katherine McDermott.<\/p>\n For the latest news on everything happening in Chester County and the surrounding area, be sure to follow MyChesCo on Google News<\/a> and MSN<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, PA \u2014 A Northampton County man was sentenced to life in prison without parole, plus an additional…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,22461,783,11018,3636],"class_list":["post-144285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-court-decisions","tag-murder","tag-pennsylvania-office-of-attorney-general","tag-violent-crime"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}