{"id":208699,"date":"2026-06-02T19:23:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208699\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T19:23:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T19:23:23","slug":"erie-man-sentenced-for-2023-murder-at-convenience-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/208699\/","title":{"rendered":"Erie man sentenced for 2023 murder at convenience store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Erie man who pleaded guilty to killing a man at a local convenience store in 2023 received his sentence Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Assistant District Attorney Tayler Moses, 29-year-old Jaquan Harris was sentenced to 38 and a half to 77 years in state prison for fatally shooting 22-year-old Jalen Reiger-Williams in May 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Harris pleaded guilty in February to third-degree murder, aggravated assault and weapon charges, with prosecutors recommending a sentence of 45-90 years in prison at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Harris was arrested the day after the fatal shooting at the Quick Stop convenience store located at the corner of West 18th and Chestnut streets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourerie.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WJET\/WFXP\/YourErie.com. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Erie man who pleaded guilty to killing a man at a local convenience store in 2023 received&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[15486,136,138,137,4829,91672,91673],"class_list":["post-208699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-convenience-store","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-jaquan-harris","tag-tayler-moses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208699","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=208699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}