DATE: Tuesday, September 16, 1997           TAG: 9709160280

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SOURCE: Janie Bryant

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LAST 2 OF 5 CHARGED IN MAN'S 1996 DEATH SENTENCED TO PRISON

PORTSMOUTH - The last two of five co-defendants charged in connection with the 1996 slaying of Mark Holley, 29, were sentenced Monday.

Tywone Wilkins, 19, pleaded guilty March 4 to robbery and two counts of abduction. A charge of use of a firearm was dismissed. He received concurrent five-year sentences on each, with 3 1/2 years suspended. He already has served that time awaiting trial.

Terry Kee, 20, pleaded guilty March 4 to robbery, use of a firearm and two counts of abduction. He received concurrent five-year sentences on the robbery and abduction charges, with three years and four months suspended on each. He received an additional three years for use of a firearm.

According to police, Holley was forced at gunpoint to disclose the location of his stash of drugs. He did so but tried to escape when the gunman's attention was diverted by a passing bicyclist, police said.

He was shot at as he ran away in the 1100 block of Lansing Avenue. The man on the bicycle, Allen Dockery, also was wounded.

Two of the co-defendants had testified before a grand jury last year that Anthony Wynn, 23, and Maurice Melson, 27, shot Holley.

In July, charges were dismissed against Wynn. Melson was found not guilty by a jury in May.

Melvin Crawley, who was 16 at the time of the slaying, was found guilty in Juvenile Court and is in Beaumont Juvenile Correctional Center. He will be eligible for parole when he is 21. KEYWORDS: MURDER SENTENCING

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