Three of the men were given 10 years while the 4th was given 20 years for pulling the trigger and fatally shooting a 25-year-old resident
TRENTON - Four men were sentenced to prison Tuesday for a 2013 home invasion robbery that left one man dead as he shielded his girlfriend from gunfire, authorities said.
Anthony Hemingway, who admitted to shooting 25-year-old Kayron Jones to death during the robbery, was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated manslaughter.
London Feliciano, Quosheon Williams and Naquan Chance were each sentenced to 10 years in prison after pleading guilty to robbery, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors have said the men broke into a house on the 600 block of North Olden Avenue a little after midnight and robbed two men on the first floor.
Man admits to fatal shooting, 3 others plead to robbery
The men were the father and brother of Jones, according according to his family. the two men were the 25-year-old's father and brother.
The four robbers then stormed upstairs and shot Jones to death in his bedroom. His family has said the gunman was aiming at Jones' girlfriend but Jones jumped between them and died protecting his girlfriend from the bullets.
Hemingway, Feliciano, Williams and Chance pleaded guilty in July to their roles in the crime and will each have to serve 85 percent of their sentences before they are eligible for parole.
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