Plea agreement avoids risk of death penalty for 2004 Coatesville slaying
By Kathleen Brady Shea, Managing Editor, The Times
Shymek H. Hynson admitted his roles in a 2004 Coatesville homicide as well as a recent plot to break out of Chester County Prison.
Authorities said a convicted Coatesville murderer wanted to get out of Chester County Prison so desperately that he conspired with a like-minded inmate to hatch an escape plan.
Instead, Shamek H. Hynson, 32, formerly of Lancaster County, bought himself more jail time, adding escape and conspiracy charges to an already lengthy list of offenses.
On Wednesday, Chester County President Judge James P. MacElree II sentenced Hynson to life in prison plus 20 to 40 years for the 2004 first-degree murder of Omar Reid of Coatesville. Under the terms of a plea agreement, Hynson, who was represented by Assistant Public Defenders David Miller and James McMullen, also received 2 1/2 to 5 years on conspiracy to commit escape.
Assistant District Attorney Mark J. Conte said in exchange for the plea, Reid avoided the possibility that he would be sentenced to death. “This case has been a gaping wound for the Reid family for eight years,” Conte said, adding that he hoped the fact that justice had been served would bring closure to the family. Miller had no comment on the resolution.
Hynson will be returned to the federal system, where he has been serving a life sentence for heading 50 Million Soldiers, a Lancaster County gang that operated a violent, multimillion-dollar cocaine and heroin ring.
Police said Hynson conspired with his half brother, Prince Isaac, in the revenge killing of Omar Reid on Oct. 18, 2004, at a Coatesville apartment complex. Police said Reid had shot and paralyzed Ramek Neal, the pair’s brother, during an attempted robbery.
Hynson was one of four defendants taken into custody in the escape case. Authorities said Hynson and Saleem D. Williams, 21, of Sharon Hill, conspired to break out of Chester County Prison, enlisting the aid of their respective girlfriends – Jameela A. Rozier, 19, of Upper Darby, and Sara-Anne H. Lombardo, 19, of Sharon Hill.
District Attorney Tom Hogan credited prison workers and county detectives for their efforts to avert the escape attempt. According to court documents, the women intended to smuggle a gun and materials to break security glass to the prisoners. Although law-enforcement sources doubted the bold, violent plan would have succeeded, they feared that its unraveling could have put many at risk.
Williams is awaiting trial for the Sept. 14, 2011, fatal shooting of Selvin Mamerto Lopez-Mauricio, 22, a fast-food worker from Phoenixville. Police said Williams, the alleged triggerman, joined two accomplices to rob Lopez-Mauricio, a Guatemalan native who was killed resisting the trio’s efforts to steal his backpack.
What, this is the Academy awards and I forgot to mention like the sound director. I apologize for missing somebody. The Coatesville PD is grossly understaffed. I would pay more taxes to bring us to 50 officers. City Council will probably lay off more officers making Coatesville. Dominick Bellizzie was the last effective chief. I think Matthews was just a tool the dealers used. Richard Legree was once very influential in Chester County government. Legree is dead and that’s good for Coatesville but I think the network he set up which I believe extends to the courthouse in West Chester (his relatives work there) still operates. I think almost everything that happens in the courthouse regarding witnesses to crimes committed in Coatesville is reported back to dealers in Coatesville. So you have lots of witnesses but none will talk because it gets back to Coatesville immediately and the alleged criminals know where all your family members live. Add to that goodwill stuff drug dealers do like contributing to churches & buying stuff for people. I think Tom Hogan is doing the detective work Coatesville Police once did when Bellizzie was Chief. I like Tom as DA because the dealers are afraid of him.
I think you have to admit that once Governor Rendell woke up Harry Walker from his Sunday hangover to tell his ass to declare an emergency so the PA State Police & ATF could come into Coatesville the drug business was over and gangs lost interest. The drug business mostly came back but SUR-13 didn’t. Crips were here too, remember kids with the blue hankies? They had a recruiter who wore a LA Dodgers hat who hung out near Pennsylvania Avenue & Lincoln Hwy.
I get most of what I write from the street or directly from public officials some of them in law enforcement. Law enforcement people use me for leaking information. People use my blog not for my political rants but mostly for the voice recordings. Sometimes you know there is a God when you record a public official saying something possibly incriminating. And a feeling of joy when you hear that 2 FBI agents paid him a visit at his office. And he goes mostly quiet afterwards. There is enough public corruption in Chester County to keep me happily investigating for several lifetimes. By the way, remember Raj the computer wiz who worked in Coatesville’s Finance Department. You know, the guy who allegedly somehow saved maybe $500,000 on a $45,000 a year job. The guy who came to work on a Monday morning and said he was leaving on a plane to India that afternoon. The guy that allegedly said “we are all going to jail” to a co-worker at city hall and when asked why allegedly said “$ millions are missing from Coatesville’s budget since 2005. Raj is back in the good old USA but not in PA.
So here is an Idea Mr. Pitcherella, thank the men and women of the Coatesville City Police Dept for the time and effort they have spent cleaning up the City. Not just Ofc. Ollis for the graffiti work he has done. He does a good job but the other 25+- men and women who patrol day and night, the drug investigators and detectives who spend day after day arresting the dirt balls who sold drugs on every corner in the City. You seem to like to give credit to everyone except the people you should. Stop quoting statistics and articles you read and thank the people who should be thanked, the Coatesville Police Officers (ALL OF THEM). The other agencies have done good work but your own cops do it every single day, this is why you can sleep at night……Stop and think about those people………or simply stop posting you nonsense.
SUR-13 members tried to make a connection here in Coatesville in 2008. I believe that the 3 SUR-13 members that were arrested by East Fallowfield Police were a part of a group in Virginia and Maryland. An older man with 1 and 3 shaved eyebrows was in a Coatesville Laundromat at about that same time. We also owe a debt of gratitude to the ATF & FBI in Maryland/Northern Virginia. I think these guys were coming up from the Baltimore area.
In a macabre way the arson fires kept gang members out of Coatesville. When undercover ATF % State Troopers were crawling all over Coatesville because of the arson fires it was near impossible to run a drug business here. I know of one man who was forced into getting a 9 to 5 job because his drug business in Coatesville became unprofitable.
In 2007-8 national street gangs were making their claim to the drug business in Coatesville. The people of Coatesville have benefited by the USDoJ pursuit of gang related violence. We also owe a debt of gratitude to John Pawlowski and Officer Ollis for removing gang graffiti from Coatesville. Gang graffiti or tagging is no small part of street gang strategy, it’s how they advertise. See:TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2012
NO! Graffiti in Coatesville-http://coatesvilledems.blogspot.com/2012/01/no-graffiti-in-coatesville.html