Self-confessed killer Donte Jones is serving a state prison sentence for slaying 36-year-old Levonza Thompson in cold blood. A Superior Court judge sentenced Jones to 10 years of incarceration on April 12 for the first-degree aggravated manslaughter. Then Jones must serve five additional years of incarceration for being in unlawful possession of a handgun in … Read more →
A wailing woman denounced a Trenton man accused of shooting a Philadelphia man to death on Halloween in 2014. The woman, who identified herself as the sister of slain 36-year-old Levonza Thompson, shouted as she walked out of court Monday that she knows accused killer Donte Jones fatally shot her brother. “That b–- killed my … Read more →
Supporters for a slain Philadelphia man wept openly in a courtroom Monday when prosecutors offered alleged killer Donte Jones a plea deal that calls for him to serve 33 years in state prison for aggravated manslaughter. Jones, 24, of Trenton, is charged with fatally shooting 36-year-old Levonza Thompson with a 9mm handgun in the courtyard … Read more →
A city man accused in connection with a Halloween homicide has been indicted by a grand jury. Donte Jones, 24, is charged with first-degree murder and related weapons offenses in connection with the shooting death of 36-year-old Levonza Thompson. Around 11 p.m. on October 31, police found Thompson lying on the ground in the 200 … Read more →
The Trenton man implicated in a Halloween homicide of a Philadelphia man was out on bail on weapons charges at the time of the shooting, prosecutors said. Donte Jones, 23, allegedly opened fire and killed 36-year-old Levonza Thompson with a 9mm handgun in the courtyard of the Oakland Park Apartments at 220 Coolidge Avenue, prosecutors … Read more →
The city has now experienced five homicides in less than three weeks. Around 8 a.m. Monday, police found 21-year-old Quran Brittingham dead after officers were dispatched to the intersection of Bruce Park Drive and Edgewood Avenue to investigate a report of “unknown trouble.” Police say Brittingham was lying on a footpath leading to the Delaware … Read more →
A Philadelphia man is dead after being shot near the Oakland Park Apartments Housing Complex on Coolidge Avenue around 11 p.m. on Friday, the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office confirmed. According to scanner reports, police arrived on the scene to find a man unresponsive after he had been shot. The man suffered multiple gunshot wounds and … Read more →
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