Daiyon El-Amin was sentenced April 17 to life in prison after pleading guilty to murder in the 2021 shooting death of 17-year-old Alabama Christian Academy student Leiah Holmes.
Holmes was a rising senior and cheerleader at ACA when El-Amin broke into her Delmar Drive home in Montgomery and shot her, Montgomery County District Attorney Azzie Oliver said. Holmes and El-Amin had briefly dated, Oliver said.
Investigators identified El-Amin through a witness and surveillance footage from private and public cameras. El-Amin was sentenced by Judge Greg Griffin…