A Pacific man who shot and killed a man in Federal Way was sentenced to 20 years in prison for second-degree murder following a guilty plea.
On Jan. 9, a King County Superior Court judge sentenced PJ Langu, 22, of Pacific, to 240 months in the Washington State Department of Corrections for second-degree murder. Langu’s charge stems from an Aug. 7, 2023, case where Langu fatally shot Tevin Kamau, 23, in Federal Way.
Kamau’s brother, Baraka Kamau, told the judge at the sentencing hearing that he, Tevin Kamau, and their mother moved to the U.S. from Kenya in 2018, and that Tevin Kamau served as a father figure to him. Baraka Kamau told the judge that he will never be able to tell his brother that he loves him again, or speak with him about their goals, and now family gatherings are not the same…