LITTLE ROCK — A woman who authorities say lured her sometime boyfriend and another man into a deadly ambush at a Little Rock apartment complex in May 2011 was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison.
Marquachun Rochelle White, 18, of Little Rock pleaded guilty before Pulaski County Circuit Judge Herb Wright to robbery in exchange for the sentence - the maximum available - with prosecutors dropping a first-degree murder charge.
Police said White called the victims, 19-year-old Jason Demario Ford and Kilo Cortez Doss, 20, of North Little Rock, to meet her and another woman at the Hangar Hill Apartments on East 11th Street. When Ford and Doss pulled up, two men walked up to their car and each pulled out guns.
Doss, in the passenger side of the car, grappled with the gunman on his side before Ford, who was driving, was able to get the car moving as the robbers began shooting. Ford was shot in the head and the car crashed across the street. Doss was shot twice, but was able to flee to a convenience store on Interstate 30 and call for help. Ford was dead when police arrived.
Doss told police he had been on the phone with White, his sometime girlfriend, as he and Ford arrived at the apartment complex.
White surrendered to police two days after the shooting. She told detectives that she participated in the robbery because Doss regularly carried large sums of money and that she had been promised half by one of the gunmen, 21-yearold Christopher Tywon Smith. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and committing a terroristic act in June in exchange for a 40-year sentence that will keep him behind bars until at least November 2026. The second gunman has not been identified.
White, the mother of a 3-year-old girl, told police she knew Smith was planning to use his gun during the holdup and said she saw Smith chase Doss as he ran away and shoot at him, court files show.
At a November 2011 hearing, prosecutors said White had been a member of a group of young women who called themselves Trap Girls and associated with the Bloods street gang. White has a tattoo of the group’s name on her stomach, according to court records.
Arkansas, Pages 9 on 01/04/2013