The family of slain Philadelphia Police Sgt. Robert Wilson III got a call from the district attorney’s office late Friday telling them that the men implicated in his murder will not stand trial or face the death penalty.
Law enforcement sources told NBC10 late Friday that Carlton Hipps and Ramone Williams plan to accept life sentences plus 50 to 100 consecutive years in prison in exchange for guilty pleas in the March 2015 murder.
Hipps and Williams will formally accept the deal at Philadelphia’s Criminal Justice Center on Monday morning, sources said.
The plea decision has upset Wilson’s family. They feel justice isn’t being served for an officer who lost his life thwarting a robbery inside a North Philadelphia Gamestop. Wilson, who visited the store on a lunch break to buy his son a birthday gift, diverted gunfire away from staff while engaging the robbers in a shootout.
Wilson’s sister, Shaki’ra Wilson-Burroughs, said she was speechless when she got the call Friday afternoon about the plea deals.
“They failed my brother,” Wilson-Burroughs said.
