A District teenager admitted to pulling the trigger in the slaying of a popular District middle school teacher after setting up an online sex encounter, a shooting described by a prosecutor as “a robbery that went bad.”
Alante Saunders, 19, on Monday pleaded guilty to first-degree murder, and Montgomery County prosecutors agreed to a sentence of life in prison with all but 40 years suspended. That means Saunders could be eligible for parole in 20 years if Judge John Debelius III approves the deal at the sentencing scheduled for Nov. 23.
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