{"id":231401,"date":"2026-06-30T01:23:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231401\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T01:23:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T01:23:07","slug":"man-who-killed-an-innocent-bystander-while-firing-at-2-philly-cops-gets-up-to-70-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/231401\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who killed an innocent bystander while firing at 2 Philly cops gets up to 70 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The 31-year-old man who admitted to killing a mother and shooting two Philadelphia police officers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/philadelphia-police-department-kensington-spencer-majett\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">nearly two years ago<\/a> was sentenced Monday morning to up to seven decades behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>Spencer Majett <a href=\"https:\/\/www.audacy.com\/kywnewsradio\/news\/local\/suspect-2024-kensington-bystander-killing-pleads-guilty\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">pleaded guilty to third-degree murder<\/a>, four counts of assault on law enforcement and weapons charges in February for the fatal shooting of 23-year-old Felicity Vanatta outside of a deli in Kensington where he was fighting with a group of people on Oct. 8, 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Majett was firing at police and struck Vannatta \u2014 an innocent bystander and young mother \u2014 in the chest with a bullet. She died at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The two officers shot back at Majett, who was struck twice in the back, but lived.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the incident stemmed from an argument over some money and a cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>Majett was sentenced to 25 to 70 years in prison. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 The 31-year-old man who admitted to killing a mother and shooting two Philadelphia police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[11228,4829,69,71,70,795],"class_list":["post-231401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-assault","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-third-degree-murder"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231401","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=231401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}