A New Jersey man will spend the rest of his days behind bars for murdering his girlfriend of three decades at a Pennsylvania hotel where they went to discuss their relationship issues.
Orenthia Upshur, 52, was sentenced to life in prison after he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in the shooting death of 49-year-old Maisha Coon, the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office said.
Upshur killed Coon on the morning of Jan. 15, 2025, at the Sleep Inn in Bensalem Township, which is about 20 miles northeast of Philadelphia. Upshur’s relative walked into a Pennsylvania State Police post around 5 a.m. to report that the suspect had told him he killed Coon in a Bensalem hotel…