Daily News | Philly hitman sentenced to five consecutive life sentences for killing six people in three years
in the span of three years, was sentenced Tuesday to five consecutive life sentences for his deadly years-long rampage.
“The little comfort that can be offered to the victims’ families is knowing that the defendant will spend the rest of his life in federal prison,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Justin Ashenfelter wrote in court filings in advance of Tuesday’s hearing. “[Pressley’s] depraved and vile actions will haunt the lives of many for generations to come. He is a stain on Philadelphia and society at large, and never again will he be permitted — or have a hope of being permitted — to menace our community again.
Investigators began to unravel Pressley’s crimes in late 2018, when Philadelphia Police and the FBI began investigating him in connection with the fatal shooting of. Small was fatally shot while sitting in his car in the 7400 block of Malvern Avenue. Investigators soon found that Pressley had also killed two tow truck drivers in January 2017 as part of a murder-for-hire scheme, authorities said. Pressley agreed to kill one of the two truck drivers for money to prevent him from testifying as a witness in an assault trial in Philadelphia, authorities said.
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