Rachel King, 35, was killed in front of her 11-year-old son, prosecutors said. Julie Jean and Zakkee Alhakim are charged with first- and third-degree murder in her death.
Elkins Park woman killed in a Dunkin’ drive-thru was the victim of a murder-for-hire plot fueled by a love triangle, prosecutors say
Jean, 35, and Alhakim, 34, are charged with first- and third-degree murder in the death of King, a teacher at Grover Cleveland Mastery Charter School. Jean, they said, hired Alhakim to kill King, a romantic rival.Jean during a break in their on-and-off relationship. Johnson called Hayes a “two-timer” who uprooted the lives of Jean and her three children by moving them from Tioga to Linwood Gardens, the apartment complex where King and Hayes lived.
But Goldstein was adamant in her message to the jury. The only connection between Alhakim and King, she said, was Jean. And it was Jean, the lawyer said, who hired the shooter to attack King, even buying him the gun he fired and vehicle he drove to the fatal ambush. When King found out about Hayes’ infidelity in 2022, Goldstein said, she urged him to end it. Afterward, Jean began to harass Hayes, the lawyer said, calling him multiple times and tapping on his apartment window. She also contacted King and visited her at work.
For months, Jean and Alhakim communicated via text, and Jean sent him pictures of King and gave himinstructions on how to get to her apartment. The two also traveled together to a house in Kensington where, prosecutors said, Jean gave Alhakim money to buy a polymer, untraceable “ghost gun.”closely tailing King as she drove her son, Jalen,
Cheltenham Police Officer Stephanie Pappas testified Monday that Jalen said the gunman had come up to the car and started shooting for no reason. The boy also pleaded with Pappas and other officers to take his mother to the hospital, wondering why no one was helping her.that had taken place days earlier. In that case, James Farrell, 35, was found April 7 shot multiple times on the 5100 block of North Broad Street.
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