CLEVELAND, Ohio — Before she was murdered on her birthday in an abandoned East Cleveland home in 2021, Alishah Pointer didn’t plead for her life. Instead, she begged her captors not to harm her twin sister.
More than four years later, three of the six people who conspired to kidnap, torture and kill Pointer have been sentenced to prison.
Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Mollie Ann Murphy on Wednesday sentenced Hakeem-Ali Shomo and Anthony Bryant each to life in prison without parole. She sentenced Brittany Smith to life in prison with parole eligibility after 41 years…