A man admitted to murdering six people throughout Philadelphia between 2016 and 2018 in his guilty plea Wednesday, four of whom he killed to fulfill contracts with a drug trafficker, according to federal prosecutors.
A Philadelphia contract killer admitted to the deaths of six people over three years, four of whom he gunned down on orders from a drug trafficker, federal
Ernest Pressley, 42, of Philadelphia, pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to six murders and one attempted murder. Some of the killings were part of a murder-for-hire plot at the direction of drug traffickers, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Pressley faces a mandatory sentence of life in prison.
A Philadelphia man who confessed to six murders, four of which he served as a hitman for a drug dealer, will spend the rest of his life in prison, prosecutors revealed.