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An Upper Gwynedd woman pleaded guilty last week in Montgomery County Common Pleas court to charges of perjury and conspiracy to hinder apprehension for helping her boyfriend flee after he murdered a man on the Schuylkill River Trail in West Norriton.
According to The Mercury, Brianna Rose Radley, 21, of the 1400 block of Oxford Circle, and who also listed an address of the 500 block of East Johnson Street, Philadelphia, also lied to the grand jury during the investigation.
Radley is free on bail and faces up to 23 months in jail on the charges.
Radley helped her boyfriend, Marquise Alexander Johnson, 24, of Philadelphia, hide out after he and Cody Kavon Reed, 24, of Norristown, shot and killed Daquan Kennard Tucker, 25, of Lower Providence, and formerly of Reading, on the trail the evening of March 2, 2023.
Johnson and Reed are expected to get life in prison at their August sentencings.
According to The Mercury, Radley and Johnson were tracked via cell phone data to Stroudsburg, Pa., on March 6, 2023, but told the grand jury on March 8 that she did not know the whereabouts of Reed or Johnson.
Reed and Johnson remained on the lam until April 6, 2023, when they were captured in Atlantic City, per the report.
Read more on the guilty plea here.
Both murderers intend to appeal the conviction, per a Daily Local News report.
A jury in February were deadlocked in the defendants’ first trial after deliberating eight hours over two days, and a mistrial was called, per the article. The retrial began on June 3, per reports.
Tucker was killed with two gunshots to his head and one to his neck on the trail and took his cell phone, prosecutors said.
All three were friends and a motive for the killing is unknown and did not have to be proven by law. No murder weapon was recovered, police said, and there were no witnesses.
According to a criminal complaint, a bicyclist came across a body in a wooded area between the trail and the Schuylkill River on the morning of March 3, 2023. Per the article, Tucker was found 100 feet away from the trail on a steep embankment, with two spent .40-caliber cartridges nearby.
Tucker had to be identified via fingerprints, because he had no ID or cell phone on him, per the report.
Read more details on the investigation and conviction here.
