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Chicago waitress sentenced in restaurant murder

Posted April 01, 2010 11:00 pm

A Cook County judge has sentenced a former waitress to 42 years in prison for the murder of the assistant manager of a Chicago restaurant.

In Thursday's sentencing hearing, Cook County Circuit Judge Lawrence Fox handed 28-year-old Erika Ray concurrent sentences of 42 years in prison for murder and 22 for armed robbery.

Prosecutors said Ebenezer fired Ray from her job at a Leona's restaurant on the South Side several hours before the fatal attack. They contend Ray then rounded up a man named Lorenzo Wilson and three others to carry out a revenge plan.

Wilson was found guilty by a separate jury, also of murder and armed robbery.

Twenty-three-year-old Paris Gosha, and a juvenile have pleaded guilty to charges related to the case, while another man was never charged.

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