PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A Philadelphia man will spend more than two decades in federal prison after he was convicted of home invasions that investigators called “extraordinarily violent” and “utterly horrifying.”
Shaquan Brown, 31, was sentenced to 22 ½ years in prison for conspiring and instructing three others to target business owners who they believed would keep large amounts of cash in their homes.
On Dec. 31, 2019 — just over a month after Brown got out of prison on drug charges — he and two other men targeted the owner of a nail salon in Havertown. Federal authorities said Brown had put a GPS tracking device on the owner’s car to learn his routine.
After they forced the owner into his home at gunpoint and ransacked the house, federal authorities said Brown and another man, while holding the salon owner at gunpoint, swung his 3-year-old daughter by her neck.
Four days later, Brown tried to break into another house in Downingtown, but the owner, who wasn’t home at the time, was alerted to motion on the property. Police caught Brown after a chase through the woods, and they said he was wearing the same clothes seen in the Havertown robbery.
In the sentencing memorandum, the prosecutor said, “[Brown] had no problem employing violence on the most vulnerable populations — whether they were 3 years old or septuagenarians.”
Two of Brown’s conspirators have been convicted. Tyreek Byrd will be sentenced next month, and Sahir McCorkle was sentenced to 15 years.