A 43-year-old woman was convicted of first-degree murder in the 2007 fatal shooting of a Greenbelt man.
Tania Wallace-Bey, of Philadelphia, faces 20 years in prison for killing 38-year-old Julius C. Whaley. Sentencing is scheduled for April 3.
Prosecutors said Wallace-Bey planned to kill herself and left an envelope titled “last will and testament” with her mother and several gift bags with her personal possessions for family and friends. Wallace-Bey drove to Maryland and stayed with Whaley for several days. On the night of Oct. 23, 2007, she shot Whaley point-blank in the chest, prosecutors said. Several hours later, she went to the store and bought some sleeping pills, washed them down with grain alcohol and then lay next to him and passed out.
When Wallace-Bey woke up a few hours later, she wrote an apology letter to their families. She then called police and claimed that she had shot the man in self-defense.
