ORLANDO, Fla. – One of the five suspects arrested in the wake of a 2023 drive-by shooting which killed a 6-year-old girl and a 19-year-old man in Orlando has been given a 25-year sentence, records show.
Ricky Bowery Jr., 20, was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty, according to a statement from the Ninth Judicial Circuit.
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Bowery initially faced charges of shooting at, within or into a building, attempted murder and two counts of first-degree murder, records show. He was sentenced in part on the lesser charge of second-degree murder, the statement reads
The shooting occurred Aug. 29, 2023, on Poppy Avenue in the Carver Shores neighborhood. Ajahliyah Hashim, 6, and her mother were shot in their home and taken to an area hospital where the girl later died, police said, adding a third person — 19-year-old Isaiyah Wright —arrived at Health Central in Ocoee with gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead.
Police said the mother and daughter were not the intended targets of the shooting and that it wasn’t known how Wright was involved, either.
Bowery was one of five people arrested in the shooting, with the other four suspects being Nico Brown, Kny Adams, Brandon James Pickett and Tyrik Omari Nichols. Court hearings are set for the rest of them in late May, records show.