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After she saw gang members shoot her boyfriend last year at a party in Bethlehem, 19-year-old Teayahe Glover broke the “wall of silence” embraced by the Crips — authorities say she cooperated with police to help them find his attacker.
She received threats from a Crips member, Kasheem Aiken of Easton, who plotted revenge against Glover for talking to police, authorities say.
Six days after the attack on her boyfriend, someone shot Glover outside her south Bethlehem house, where police found her dead on the sidewalk on Feb. 8, 2017.
For more than a year, police worked to penetrate the code of silence, and on Tuesday, after an investigation that involved a Northampton County grand jury, authorities charged Aiken, 36, and an accomplice with killing Glover.
Investigators did not divulge the key in breaking the case, but spoke about the challenges of what they called a “gang-related, retaliatory” killing.
“These are individuals who are afraid to testify because they may be next, or they don’t want police to know they ratted their colleagues out,” Assistant District Attorney William Blake said at a news conference about the arrests. “But the great thing about the grand jury is the power of subpoena to get past the wall of silence.”
Investigators broke 'wall of silence' in gang killing in Bethlehem, authorities say
This is an interesting piece.
She received threats from a Crips member, Kasheem Aiken of Easton, who plotted revenge against Glover for talking to police, authorities say.
Six days after the attack on her boyfriend, someone shot Glover outside her south Bethlehem house, where police found her dead on the sidewalk on Feb. 8, 2017.
For more than a year, police worked to penetrate the code of silence, and on Tuesday, after an investigation that involved a Northampton County grand jury, authorities charged Aiken, 36, and an accomplice with killing Glover.
Investigators did not divulge the key in breaking the case, but spoke about the challenges of what they called a “gang-related, retaliatory” killing.
“These are individuals who are afraid to testify because they may be next, or they don’t want police to know they ratted their colleagues out,” Assistant District Attorney William Blake said at a news conference about the arrests. “But the great thing about the grand jury is the power of subpoena to get past the wall of silence.”
Investigators broke 'wall of silence' in gang killing in Bethlehem, authorities say
This is an interesting piece.
