Woman sentenced to 65 years for 2021 Galesburg murder
At sentencing, Ramey admitted, for the first time, that she drove to her ex-boyfriends house in early January and shot Rachel Likes, who was sitting in a parked car
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At sentencing, Ramey admitted, for the first time, that she drove to her ex-boyfriends house in early January and shot Rachel Likes, who was sitting in a parked car
A Galesburg woman was sentenced yesterday to 65 years in the Department of Corrections for murder. 27-year-old Maquesha Ramey was found guilty in January of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Rachel Likes on January 4, 2021. During the trial, evidence was heard that Ramey traveled to Mississippi to purchase a handgun. When she returned, she disguised herself in a hood, mask, and wig and drove to her ex-boyfriend's house in Galesburg. Finding Likes parked outside the house, she shot at least nine times into the car, striking her three times and causing her death. Luckily, Likes...
Maquesha Ramey was sentenced to 65 years in prison for the shooting and killing of Rachel Likes on Jan. 4, 2021.
The 27-year-old Galesburg woman faces the possibility of life in prison after being found guilty of the 2021 murder of Rachel Likes.
Ramey was charged in the Jan. 4, 2021, murder of 26-year-old Rachel Likes.