Truman Jermaine Parks, 53, of Philadelphia, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for attempting to kill an unarmed loss prevention officer during a disturbance at a Five Below store in Cheltenham Township on December 6, 2024, The Pottstown Mercury reported.
Park was convicted in September. He and accomplice Sydney Swain-Parks, 28, were arrested on December 23, 2024. She previously pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and was sentenced to 11.5 to 23 months in prison.
According to the District Attorney’s report, officers arrived at the Five Below to find the store’s security guard with life-threatening injuries, going in and out of consciousness, and lying in a pool of blood. He was transported to Jefferson Einstein Philadelphia Hospital where he was taken into emergency surgery and later released…