Suspect in gang-related killing of teen Brandon Wingo enters guilty plea
A Delaware man charged in the gang-related killing of 15-year-old high school student Brandon Wingo has avoided a possible murder conviction.
Suspect in gang-related killing of teen Brandon Wingo enters guilty plea A Delaware man charged in the gang-related killing of 15-year-old high school student Brandon Wingo has avoided a possible murder conviction. Check out this story on delawareonline.com: https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/local/2019/03/09/zaahir-smith-suspect-gang-related-killing-brandon-wingo-takes-guilty-plea/3113422002/
Associated Press Published 9:24 a.m. ET March 9, 2019
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A Delaware man charged in the gang-related killing of a 15-year-old high school student has avoided a possible murder conviction by pleading guilty to other charges.
Zaahir Smith is one of three men indicted on gang participation and the shooting death 15-year-old Brandon Wingo. (Photo: COURTESY OF DELAWARE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE)
Zaahir Smith pleaded guilty Friday to gang participation, robbery, attempted robbery, assault, conspiracy and possession of a firearm during a felony. Prosecutors dropped several other charges, including murder.
Smith and co-defendant Diamonte Taylor will be sentenced later. Taylor faces life in prison after being convicted of murder in the 2016 killing of Brandon Wingo.
Prosecutors say the defendants were members of the Shoot to Kill gang, while Wingo was affiliated with a rival Wilmington gang called Only My Brothers.
Wingo was shot while walking home from Howard High School of Technology, where a bathroom fight just weeks earlier left a 16-year-old girl dead.
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