DETROIT (WWJ) -- Now six years since Egypt Covington was murdered, the remaining two men involved in her death have been sentenced in Wayne County Circuit Court.
The Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said Shandon Ray Groom and Timothy Eugene Moore were sentenced before Judge Wanda Evans on Thursday, according to sentencing agreements they made when they pleaded guilty in the case.
Groom will spend the next 17 to 26 years in prison, having pleaded guilty to a charge of Second Degree Murder.
Moore was sentenced to 20 to 55 years for Second Degree Murder, and two years for Felony Firearm.
Before Moore was sentenced, WDIV reports he sent the court into an outrage with claims that he'd been "pushed into" a plea deal, and that Covington's family will never find closure because "there is more to the story."
In 2017, Covington was found dead inside her Van Buren Township home with her hands tied with Christmas lights, and a gunshot wound in the head, just days before her 28th birthday.
After three years of investigation, calls for tips, questions and speculation, three arrests were made in late 2020 in the slaying that prosecutors said appeared to be the result of a robbery gone wrong. The suspects, authorities concluded, were looking to steal some marijuana from a person living in the duplex, but entered the wrong home.
Covington worked as an account manager for a craft beer and wine distributor, and was well-known in Metro Detroit for her beautiful singing voice and kind heart, according to her family.
A third defendant in the case, Shane Lamar Evans, also pleaded guilty to Second Degree Murder and was previously sentenced to 15 to 25 years.
