{"id":192751,"date":"2026-05-14T23:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192751\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T23:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T23:25:07","slug":"teen-gets-10-25-years-for-fatal-south-philly-carjacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/192751\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen gets 10-25 years for fatal South Philly carjacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SOUTH PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A teenager who admitted to fatally shooting a man in South Philadelphia over a car was sentenced Thursday to at least a decade in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Rasheed Banks Jr. was 15-years-old when shot and killed 50-year-old Michael Salerno in July 2023 over his Pontiac sedan.<\/p>\n<p>Banks pleaded guilty in February to third degree murder, conspiracy, robbery of a motor vehicle and a gun offense. Three other firearm charges were dropped.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Banks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/teen-wanted-for-murder-during-attempted-carjacking#\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was one of three armed suspects who jumped out of a Red Kia Soul and tried to steal the car<\/a> at 11th and Porter Streets in South Philadelphia. They said Salerno had a friend in the car at the time and was trying to protect her and fought back when he was shot.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Charles Ehrlich sentenced Banks, now 17, to 10 to 25 years behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>The two other suspects in the case were never arrested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SOUTH PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A teenager who admitted to fatally shooting a man in South Philadelphia over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[34268,31,457,69,71,70,220,645],"class_list":["post-192751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-carjacking","tag-crime","tag-homicide","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-shooting","tag-south-philadelphia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192751","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=192751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}