Zaria McKeever killing: Mother of Erick Haynes pleads guilty

The Brief

  • The mother of a man sentenced to life in prison for ordering two teens to carry out a murder pleaded guilty on Wednesday.
  • Valesha Grace Parker, 48, of Minneapolis, pleaded guilty to one count of aiding an offender after the fact first-degree murder.
  • Zaria McKeever was fatally shot after her boyfriend escaped through a second-story window.

BROOKLYN PARK, Minn. (FOX 9) A woman pleaded guilty to aiding an offender after her son was sentenced to life in prison for the death of 23-year-old Zaria McKeever.

Valesha Grace Parker, 48, of Minneapolis, entered a guilty plea to one count of aiding an offender after the fact for helping her son, Erick Haynes, who ordered two teenagers to break into McKeever’s home to kill her boyfriend.

The boyfriend escaped through a second-story window, and McKeever was killed.

Mother pleads guilty to aiding offender in Zaria McKeever killing

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