Gainesville teen sentenced to more than 20 years for 2024 death

Gainesville’s Ke’Mani Hill, 15, was adjudicated guilty of manslaughter, conspiracy to commit robbery with a firearm and other felonies on Monday after a guilty plea.

Alachua County Judge Denise Ferrero sentenced Hill to more than 20 years in the Florida Department of Corrections, along with a concurrent 15-year sentence for shooting into an occupied vehicle.

The sentencing comes almost exactly two years after Gainesville police deputies responded to calls of a shooting at the Tiger Bay Apartments on April 19, 2024. Deputies found Wilber Perez, 25, dead at the scene and later concluded that the incident had been a botched robbery attempt on the part of Hill, who was 13 at the time…

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