An Allentown man accused of killing his mother and sister pleaded guilty but mentally ill Tuesday in the 2018 slayings and will not be eligible for parole until he is 60 years old.
Guilty but mentally ill plea in murders of mother, sister
June 9, 2021
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ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) A man has pleaded guilty but mentally ill in the slayings of his mother and sister outside an eastern Pennsylvania apartment building more than 2 1/2 years ago.
Prosecutors said 37-year-old Zakiiy Carson entered the plea Tuesday in Lehigh County court to two counts of third-degree murder as part of a plea deal calling for a sentence of 25 to 50 years in prison.
Authorities said Carson told investigators that he stopped taking psychiatric medicine weeks before arguing with his mother, 52-year-old Latricia Ezell, in October 2018, and the argument got worse after his 29-year-old sister, Ashley Campfield, arrived to pick up her 3-year-old son.
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A Pennsylvania man charged with killing his mother and sister both Newark natives entered a guilty plea this week, authorities announced.
Zakiiy Carson, 37, on Tuesday pleaded guilty but mentally ill to two counts of murder in the third degree in the 2018 shooting deaths of
Ashley Campfield, according to Lehigh County District Attorney Jim Martin.
Carson who called 911 himself on Oct. 28, 2018, told dispatchers he had shot his mother and sister after an argument over treatment of his nephew, whom Ezell had been caring for while his mom was at work, authorities said.
A surveillance camera posted at the rear of a North 5th Street apartment building captured the shootings, Martin said.