A Fayetteville mother has pleaded guilty to hiding her teen son from law enforcement after he killed a man — and a month later, the teen was left paralyzed during the commission of a second murder.
Zakela Vontel Oglesby, 40, was sentenced to 24 months of supervised probation with a suspended prison sentence of eight to 19 months after pleading July 15 to obstruction of justice in the March 6, 2023, killing of Raymund Alexander Graham, 29, of Hope Mills.
Graham was shot and killed by Oglesby’s 15-year-old son, Donald McLucas III. Oglesby then helped her son avoid law enforcement, the charging document states.
While on the lam in the first homicide, the teen was involved in a second homicide alongside his father, Donald McLucas Jr., 42.
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Robert Nowell V, 36, was killed April 18, 2023, and the teen was also shot and left paralyzed.
Father and son pleaded guilty in April. The son was sentenced in total for both murders to at least 17 years in prison. The father was sentenced to at least 18 years in the Nowell murder, according to court records.
Public safety reporter Joseph Pierre can be reached at jpierre@gannett.com.
This article originally appeared on The Fayetteville Observer: Mother of teen guilty in two killings sentenced to probation