Overview
- Common Pleas Judge Glenn B. Bronson imposed the agreed sentence after Carriker admitted five counts of third-degree murder, five counts of attempted murder and related gun crimes.
- Prosecutors pursued the deal after a District Attorney’s Office expert agreed with defense clinicians that Carriker may not have understood his actions were wrong.
- The shootings killed DaJuan Brown, 15; Lashyd Merritt, 21; Dymir Stanton, 29; Ralph Moralis, 59; and Joseph Wamah Jr., 31, and wounded five others.
- Carriker moved through Kingsessing wearing body armor and a ski mask while firing an AR-15–style rifle later determined to be a ghost gun, and police later recovered another handgun and matching ammunition from his home.
- Investigators say Wamah was killed inside his home the night before the street attacks, and officers captured Carriker after cornering him near Frazier Street.