16-year term issued in fatal stabbing Jim Chapman | The Journal Gazette A Fort Wayne woman who admitted she fatally stabbed her mother a year ago was sentenced Monday to 16 years in prison. Raina Swopshire, also known as Kennishewa Whitley, pleaded guilty in September to voluntary manslaughter. Swopshire, 25, was to stand trial in late October on a murder charge. She pleaded guilty to a lesser charge as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors. The murder charge was dismissed as part of the plea deal. Had she been convicted of murder, she faced up to 65 years in prison. Allen Superior Judge David Zent imposed the 16-year sentence. Swopshire has spent more than a year in jail.