NJ Man Sentenced To 375 Years For Killing 2 Children, College Student Over Social Media Post
A New Jersey man was sentenced on Friday to 375 years in prison for brutally murdering two children and a college student in 2016 when he got upset over a Facebook post, officers said.
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Judge Ronald D. Wigler sentenced Jeremy Arrington, 31, to three straight life sentences for killing 7-year-old Ariel Little Whitehurst, her 11-year-old brother Al-Jahon Whitehurst, as well as fatally shooting Syasia McBurroughs, a 23-year-old friend of the household who was traveling to their Newark home in November 2016.
Arrington was sentenced last month in Essex County on 28 charges associated with the home invasion in which he bound and tormented six people, the Essex County Prosecutor’s Office shared.
The murdered children’s mother, 29, and two 13-year-old twins — a boy and a girl — were stabbed but lived.
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“This defendant is pure evil and clearly deserves all 375 years in New Jersey State Prison for the terrible crimes he committed on Nov. 5, 2016,” Deputy Chief Assistant Prosecutor Justin Edwab said in a statement after the sentencing.
“These families have waited over five years for this moment, and we are all so grateful for this sentence. Thank you to all those who helped bring this defendant to justice and thank you to the jury for holding this defendant accountable.”