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Shaylyn Moran Teen Killer Murders Ex Boyfriends Mother

Shaylyn Moran was eighteen years old when she convinced her new fiance to murder her ex-boyfriends mother a day after meeting her for the very first time. According to court documents Shaylyn Moran and Jack Doherty were involved in an online relationship and would finally meet the day before the murder. Shaylyn Moran would convince her new fiance to murder her ex boyfriends mother. According to Shaylyn Moran the weapon which was 3D printed was used to fatally shoot the woman , Cheryl Smith, at her Pawtucket Rhode Island home. Jack Doherty would brag about the murder on social media and soon the pair would be arrested. This teen killer was sentenced to twenty years to life in prison. Jack Doherty is still waiting to go to trial.

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Inmate ID	Last Name	First Name	MI		Race	Sex	Age	Last Residence	Security
159467	MORAN	SHAYLYN	C		WHITE	Female	20	Pawtucket	WOMENS FACILITY 1

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A Pawtucket woman will spend the rest of her life behind bars for the murder of her ex-boyfriend’s mother last year.

Shaylyn Moran, 20, pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and carrying a pistol without a license in the shooting death of Cheryl Smith, 54, according to the office of Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha.

Moran was sentenced to life in prison for the murder, plus consecutive 10-year terms for the additional charges.

On the night of Jan. 1, 2020, Smith was shot several times in the chest at her home on Baxter Street.

The AG’s office said state prosecutors were prepared to prove that Moran was an accomplice in Smith’s murder which was allegedly committed by her fiancé, Jack Doherty.

In the months leading up to the shooting, Moran and Doherty developed a long-distance relationship and conspired to attack her ex-boyfriend, according to the AG’s office. On Dec. 31, 2019, Doherty traveled to Rhode Island from New York to visit Moran and brought a 9mm pistol with him.

The AG’s office said the pair rented a hotel room in Pawtucket and later attended a New Year’s Eve party, where Doherty proposed. When they returned to the room, the couple allegedly decided to go to her ex-boyfriend’s house and shoot whoever opened the door.

At Moran’s instruction, according to the AG’s office, Doherty surveilled the home and eventually knocked on the door, then shot Smith four times when she opened it. First responders rushed Smith to the hospital where she was pronounced dead.

Pawtucket police said Smith’s son tipped them off that Moran may be responsible, and court-authorized searches of the couple’s phones, social media and rideshare service accounts aided in their investigation.

The day after the shooting, detectives tracked down Moran and Doherty and arrested them as they left the hotel room. Police said Doherty was in possession of the handgun at the time.

https://www.wpri.com/news/local-news/blackstone-valley/woman-20-gets-life-in-prison-for-role-in-pawtucket-murder/

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The Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office said Thursday that a Pawtucket woman will serve a life sentence for a New Year’s Day killing.

Shaylyn Moran, 20, plead guilty to several charges, including first-degree murder.

The attorney general’s office said Moran was sentenced Thursday in the shooting death of Cheryl Smith on Baxter Street in Pawtucket in 2020.

Police said Moran was the ex-girlfriend of Smith’s 21-year-old son.

The attorney general’s office Moran and her alleged accomplice, Jack Doherty, went to the ex-boyfriend’s home, saying they would shoot whoever answered the door.

Smith answered the door and was shot four times in the chest, said authorities. She was pronounced dead at Rhode Island Hospital.

Police said Doherty was the one who pulled the trigger under Moran’s instruction. Officers found him with the handgun.

Doherty is being held without bail and is awaiting trial.

https://turnto10.com/news/local/pawtucket-woman-pleads-guilty-to-new-years-day-murder

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Craig Price Teen Killer Murders 3 People

Craig Price was fifteen years old when he murdered three people. According to court documents Craig Price would be arrested for the murder of a woman and her daughter, once arrested Craig Price would confess to a murder he committed a year before. Due to the laws at the time this teen killer could only be held until he turned twenty one however due to his actions behind bars he has never been released.

Craig Price 2023 Information

DC Number:	126556
Name:	PRICE, CRAIG
Race:	BLACK
Sex:	MALE
Birth Date:	10/11/1973
Initial Receipt Date:	12/03/2004
Current Facility:	FLORIDA STATE PRISON
Current Custody:	CLOSE
Current Release Date:	07/11/2044

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A Florida judge on Friday sentenced infamous serial killer Craig Price, who terrorized Warwick in the 1980s, to serve 25 years in prison for trying to murder a fellow inmate.

Price, 45, agreed to plead guilty to a charge that he stabbed inmate Joshua Davis with a homemade, 5-inch knife blade at the Suwannee Correctional Institution, according to the Suwannee County Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. He received a 25-year sentence on that charge, plus 10 years’ probation, according to Assistant State Attorney Sandra L. Rosendale.

Craig received 10 years’ probation for possession of contraband. The probation terms are concurrent, but will be served consecutively to his prison sentence, Rosendale said.

Price agreed to waive 524 days of good-time credit, the clerk’s office said.

If Price violates his probation upon his release, he could be sent back to prison to serve a sentence up to life, Rosendale wrote in an email.

Price agreed to be classified as a habitual felony offender.

Rhode Island prosecutors praised the resolution of the case.

“We are extremely grateful for the excellent work by the Third Judicial Circuit of Florida State Attorney’s Office on this case,” Kristy dosReis, spokeswoman for Attorney General Peter F. Neronha’s office, said in an email statement. “It has been clear from the beginning that our Florida colleagues knew how significant this case was to Rhode Island. We are also grateful that, for purposes of public safety, Mr. Price has been sentenced to a long sentence based on his latest acts of violent criminal misconduct.”

Price’s lawyer, Michael Bryant, declined comment.

Documents indicate that Price entered Davis’ cell on April 4, 2017, and repeatedly stabbed him. Davis fled, but Price tackled him and continued the attack. Authorities say the premeditated assault was caught on video and that Price intended to inflict mortal wounds.

Price was arraigned in August 2017, but had refused to enter a plea, instead reserving his right to challenge the legal sufficiency of the charging document, prosecutors said. His trial was repeatedly delayed and, in November, his lawyer sought to get a competency assessment.

Craig is perhaps Rhode Island’s most notorious criminal. In 1989, at age 15, he admitted to stabbing and bludgeoning his neighbors — Joan Heaton and her daughters, Melissa and Jennifer — in the Buttonwoods neighborhood of Warwick. He also admitted to committing the unsolved murder of another neighbor, Rebecca Spencer, two years earlier, when he was 13.

Under state law at the time, Price could not be tried and sentenced as an adult, meaning he would have been released from juvenile detention at age 21. He has since been held on a raft of charges, including contempt of court and assault on correctional officers in Rhode Island.

Price’s Rhode Island sentence ran out in October 2017, according to the state Department of Corrections. The Rhode Island attorney general’s office filed a probation violation petition against Price related to a previous Florida assault, a spokeswoman there has said

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Joel Loarca Teen Killer Murders Teenager

Joel Loarca was fifteen when he murdered another teenager. According to court documents Joel Loarca was outside of a Rhode Island high school with a number of gang members when a confrontation broke out. Joel Loarca would pull out a gun and fire at the rival group however the bullet would strike a student who was waiting for a bus nearby. This teen killer would plead guilty to the murder and would be sentenced to life in prison plus an additional ten years for gun possession.

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Inmate Number: 160569

Name: Joel Loarca

Facility: Intake Service Center

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The teenager charged in the death of a 15-year-old outside of a Providence school last September pleaded guilty in Superior Court Friday morning.

Joel Loarca, 17, was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole plus an additional ten years for the murder of William Parsons.

“Parsons was a high school student, waiting for a ride home. He was in no way involved in the altercation,” prosecutors said in court Friday.

On September 5, 2018, Loarca, a member of the Hanover Boys gang, got into a fight with two people around 2 p.m. outside of the Providence Career and Technical Academy. Prosecutors say Loarca pulled a gun from his waistband, and fired one shot.

His bullet hit the 15-year-old as he was in a crowd of students, waiting for a ride home from school.

“He grabbed his face and ran. Parsons collapsed in front of the sign outside PCTA, subsequently dying from his injury.”

Parsons’ family members filled the benches in court Friday, many wearing t-shirts that read, “Rest In Paradise William ‘Eddy’ Parsons”. The courtroom was filled with emotional as Parsons’ mother, Michelle, broke down into tears as Loarca entered in shackles. Another relative left the room, consumed with grief.

The prosecutor read a victim statement on behalf of Michelle Parsons, as she sat beside him.

“My son was the sweetest child since he was little, and even more respectable as a teen. How do you get killed the second day of school for nothing?”

She wrote that his death has left her forever changed.

“I cannot sleep anymore without medication, I have been diagnosed with severe PTSD.”

William Parsons’ father, William Parsons Sr., passed away just nine months after his son, she wrote. William Jr. is survived by two sisters.

“I will never forgive the person who killed my son, and just remember, what goes around, comes around.”

Loarca will serve his sentence at the ACI in Cranston. He’s eligible for parole after serving 25 years. If he were to get parole, Loarca would be behind bars for a total of 35 years.

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A teenager admitted in Superior Court to killing another teenager outside of the Providence Career and Technical Academy.

Joel Loarca, 17, pleaded guilty to five criminal counts on Friday related to the fatal shooting of William Parsons outside of the school in September of 2018. It came days after Loarca waived his juvenile status and agreed to be tried as an adult.

Parsons’ mother, Michelle Parsons, was overcome with grief in court as loved ones tried to console her.

Special Assistant Attorney General Peter Roklan read a statement on her behalf. “I cannot sleep anymore without medication. I have been diagnosed with severe PTSD,” he said. “The love I feel for my son no medicine can cure.”

Loarca was sentenced to life in prison, plus an additional 10 years. Loarca pleaded guilty to one count each of first-degree murder, carrying a pistol without a license, possession of a firearm on school grounds, assault with a dangerous weapon, and discharge of a firearm during the commission of a crime of violence.

“I will never forgive the person who killed my son and just remember what goes around comes around,” Roklan said as part of the victim’s impact statement.

Prosecutors said on September 5, 2018, Loarca got into a fight with other students outside of the Providence Career and Technical Academy.

He then pulled out a .357 Magnum Taurus revolver and fired a shot, striking Parsons, who wasn’t even involved in the argument.

Police have said Parsons was an innocent bystander who was waiting for his father to pick him up after the second day of school.

Parsons was a sophomore at Central High School. He had planned to try out for the school’s basketball team and aspired to become a Rhode Island State trooper.

“My son was the sweetest child since he was little and even more respectable as a teenager. I wish I could’ve been there before he died,” Roklan said.

Police say Loarca fled from the scene and accidentally shot himself. First responders treated him for a gunshot wound about half a mile from the school.

According to prosecutors, police were able to find the gun after he hid it.

Loarca is eligible for parole after he serves 25 years for the life sentence.

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