21-year-old sentenced for shooting into crowd, killing teen

PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — A 21-year-old man will spend up to four decades behind bars after pleading guilty to third-degree murder in the ambush shooting of a Philadelphia teenager two years ago.

Ranief Allen was sentenced to 10 to 40 years in prison. He admitted to being one of two men who gunned down 16-year-old Nafis Betrand-Hill on a North Philadelphia street corner in April 2023.

At the time, police said Betrand-Hill was outside with a group of kids and adults at 23rd Street and Montgomery Avenue when two suspects jumped out of a car and began shooting…

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