Two men from Atlantic City have been sentenced to prison in connection to a robbery homicide.
The two men, Aziz Sanders and DeShawn Hicks, were found guilty of the abduction and killing of a teen mother from Atlantic City that took place in 2011. They had originally planned to rob a different man and the mother happened to be home at the time of the robbery. The defendant’s plead to using a firearm and aiding and abetting the use of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
The penalties that these two men received were quite severe. Sanders, who is 21 years old, received a 30 year sentence in New Jersey State Prison. Hicks, who is 22, received a 20 year sentence in State Prison. Both will also have to serve 5 years of supervised release even after they get out of prison and pay $1.5 million dollars in restitution to the victims family. Further, 85 percent of the sentences must be served before they are even eligible for parole.
For more information on this case, access the nj.com article entitled “Atlantic City men sentenced to prison for abduction, killing during robbery.”
