Overview
- Ammar Patel pleaded guilty to manslaughter for driving the getaway vehicle and was sentenced to life in prison with parole eligibility after seven years.
- Osman Afandy admitted to being an accessory after the fact and was handed a five-and-a-half-year prison sentence earlier this month.
- Court heard that security camera footage of the shooting and the five-minute wait for first responders was entered as evidence during Patel’s sentencing hearing.
- Lynda Marques, a 30-year-old nurse, was sprayed with 13 bullets on Sept. 10, 2021, after arriving at her home in a botched hit targeting her fiancé, Ali Bhatti.
- Bhatti continues to face multiple gun and drug charges following police raids that recovered five handguns, ammunition and narcotics from his residence.