{"id":129336,"date":"2019-06-02T14:23:06","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T18:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/?p=129336"},"modified":"2019-06-02T14:23:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T18:23:13","slug":"officials-suspect-killed-man-who-was-trying-to-break-up-a-fight-between-2-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/officials-suspect-killed-man-who-was-trying-to-break-up-a-fight-between-2-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials: Suspect killed man who was trying to break up a fight between 2 women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Queens, NY man has pleaded guilty to a Wilmington, Delaware homicide.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2017, Wilmington Police responded to a shooting and found Allen Melton of Wilmington suffering from gunshots to his torso and legs. Multiple witnesses reported that Sandy Lashley, 31, and a female accomplice, Latesha Favors of Wilmington, started an altercation with Melton\u2019s girlfriend on Cedar Street and that when Melton attempted to break up the altercation, Lashley shot him multiple times and fled with Favors.<\/p>\n<p>Melton was later pronounced dead at Christiana Hospital. Lashley pleaded guilty to Murder Second Degree and Possession of a Firearm During the Commission of a Felony and faces sentencing by a Superior Court judge in July. Favors is still wanted by police for her role in the initial physical altercation with Melton\u2019s girlfriend.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Attorneys General Cari Chapman and Anna Currier secured Lashley\u2019s plea with assistance from paralegals Jaime Prater and Julie Caputo, Special Investigator Cliff Dempsey, social worker Kristen Fluharty-Emory, and Wilmington Police Detective Tom Curley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Queens, NY man has pleaded guilty to a Wilmington, Delaware homicide. In September 2017, Wilmington Police responded to a shooting and found Allen Melton of Wilmington suffering from gunshots to his torso and legs. Multiple witnesses reported that Sandy Lashley, 31, and a female accomplice, Latesha Favors of Wilmington, started an altercation with Melton\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5409,"featured_media":95057,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[54],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Officials: Suspect killed man who was trying to break up a fight between 2 women - Breaking911<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/breaking911.com\/officials-suspect-killed-man-who-was-trying-to-break-up-a-fight-between-2-women\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Officials: Suspect killed man who was trying to break up a fight between 2 women - Breaking911\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Queens, NY man has pleaded guilty to a Wilmington, Delaware homicide. 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