A 16-year-old received a three-year detention sentence on Thursday for the murder of a former U.S. military interpreter during a carjacking attempt in Washington, D.C., in 2023.
D.C. Superior Court Judge Kendra Briggs sentenced the teen to a three-year lockup after prosecutors struck a plea deal with the killer to serve 17 months. Briggs called the murder of Nasrat Ahmad Yar in 2023 a “senseless” act and doubled prosecutors’ request for the teen’s sentence, according to WUSA9.
The killer could have faced a maximum sentence of five years in secure detention if he had elected to go to trial and had been found guilty. D.C. code mandates juvenile felons be released when they turn 21.
Those close to Yar expressed disappointment at the sentence. Even after the judge’s increase, the term does not seem long enough after the teen killed Yar, a 31-year-old father of four.
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