{"id":9843,"date":"2021-07-23T18:26:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci0288dc1d700025a3"},"modified":"2021-07-23T18:26:48","modified_gmt":"2021-07-23T18:26:48","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-after-victim-shot-and-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/2021\/07\/23\/man-pleads-guilty-after-victim-shot-and-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"MAN PLEADS GUILTY, AFTER VICTIM SHOT AND KILLED"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  Zhaymilik Phillips, 29, was charged with murdering 30-year-old Tony Russell.&nbsp;Zhaymilik&#8217;s criminal trial was on July 22, 2021 in Charlotte, NC, but the prosecution did not get what they wanted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/court-img_3692.jpg\"><\/figure>\n<p>Prosecutors wanted a murder conviction. But the jury only found&nbsp;Zhaymilik guilty of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. The jury was unable to reach unanimous verdicts for the charges&nbsp;against Zhaymilik&nbsp;of&nbsp;first degree murder and assault with a deadly weapon with the intent to kill.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the judge declared a mistrial.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For whatever reason,&nbsp;Zhaymilik decided to&nbsp;pled guilty to&nbsp;voluntary manslaughter.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tony was shot and killed on June 24, 2016 in Charlotte, NC.&nbsp;Zhaymilik was&nbsp;sentenced to 72-99 months in prison.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zhaymilik is off to prison, following his guilty plea during a murder trial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[497,54,443,57,229,599,244],"class_list":["post-9843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-deadly-shooting","tag-homicide","tag-homicide-investigation","tag-murder","tag-murder-investigation","tag-murder-trial","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tender-hodgkin.62-151-180-206.plesk.page\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}