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Two Men Get 15 Years After Pleading Guilty in 2018 Roxbury Killing

The guilty pleas close a seven-year case after two hung juries.

Overview

  • Superior Court Judge Mary K. Ames imposed 15-year state prison sentences with credit for roughly 7.5 years already served.
  • Jerion Moore of Stoughton and Nicholas Sicellon of Dorchester admitted to voluntary manslaughter and unlawful possession of firearms.
  • The pleas avert a third trial and conclude a prosecution that began with first-degree murder charges carrying life without parole.
  • Prosecutors cited surveillance video, cell-phone records, and two recovered guns, and alleged the pair went to a relative’s home before leaving in an Uber.
  • Alexander Mervin, a 22-year-old from Revere, was shot in a Whittier Street parking lot, ran toward Boston Police Headquarters, and later died at Boston Medical Center, as his mother’s statement described the family’s continuing loss.