Lanham man gets 20 years in fatal drive-by

Published May 21, 2009 4:00am ET



A Prince George’s County judge sentenced a Lanham teenager to 20 years in prison for the fatal drive-by shooting of a high school student who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Eighteen-year-old Jeffrey D. Boddie II pleaded guilty to the death of Cherrese Richardson, an 18-year-old senior at Charles H. Flowers High School in Springdale. Prince George’s County Circuit Court Judge Shelia Tillerson-Adams handed down the maximum sentence for voluntary manslaughter, use of a handgun in commission of a felony, and first-degree assault.

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