Saturday, February 18, 2012

Two black women have been sentenced for the carnage that they caused outside a North Philadelphia after-hours club on Labor Day weekend 2010

Sharonda Cheeves, at the wheel when a female bystander was struck and killed, has been sentenced to 4-8 years in prison. Her co-defendant, Jesslyn Williams, got 2-4 years. Fueled by alcohol and anger after they weren’t allowed into the club because they had alcohol and were abusive to staff, defendants Cheeves and Williams got into a car and circled the block repeatedly, hitting more than half a dozen people, killing a 27-year-old woman and seriously injuring several others, including club manager Kadella Davis, who says that she never saw it coming. “One (victim) was down the street — he had been hit twice already. He was laying in front of a car. I had my back to them approaching me, so that’s why I didn’t see myself being hit.”