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WILKES-BARRE — “Hazard” wants a reduced sentence.
The Philadelphia gang member convicted in September of shooting two people asked a Luzerne County judge Wednesday to modify his 40- to 80-year state prison sentence to “the bottom of the standard range on each count and consider running the sentences on count 1 and count 2 concurrent,” his attorney, Allyson L. Kacmarski wrote.
A Luzerne County jury convicted the 29-year-old, nicknamed “Hazard,” on two counts of attempted murder, finding he shot Sherry “Chyna” Rivera and Izhar “Izzy” Ramos-Ramirez in their heads in a stairwell inside the Interfaith Heights apartment complex in Wilkes-Barre in April 2015.
Edwards’ co-defendant, Wandalee Balcacer, 27, was convicted of conspiring to murder Rivera, her ex-girlfriend, and was sentenced to 15 to 40 years in state prison.
Prosecutors said Edwards and Balcacer were active in local street gangs.
A judge did not immediately respond to the motion Wednesday.