LANCASTERONLINE | Staff
A Columbia man who was convicted in June for his role in a 2023 armed carjacking in the borough is also charged with shooting a man to death during a drug robbery in Pittsburgh three years ago.
Sammie Edward Lane Jr. waived his preliminary hearing on homicide and related charges on Aug. 1 in Pittsburgh Municipal Court in the death of Tayrod Ford.
Lane had been scheduled for sentencing on Monday in Lancaster County Court, according to his docket here in the carjacking case. He was convicted June 13 of robbery, simple assault and related charges.
In that case, according to prosecutors, Lane, 37, Destiny Delgado-Diaz, and Alexander Ethan Delgado-Diaz, lured a man to Columbia on Dec. 31, 2023, began strangling him, threatened him with a handgun, and stole his Dodge Durango SUV and items he had in the vehicle.
Destiny Delgado-Diaz, 23, of Columbia, is serving a 27-month to 10-year state prison sentence after she pleaded guilty on May 1 to robbery and related charges.
Alexander Ethan Delgado-Diaz, 25, of Columbia, is awaiting resolution of his case. A status conference is scheduled for Oct. 2.
According to charging documents filed by Pittsburgh police, on Aug. 14, 2022, Lane and another man, Kevin Rivera, of Wilkinsburg, planned to rob Ford of drugs. During the robbery, Rivera shot Ford once in the shoulder and Ford told the men to take whatever they wanted and begged for his life.
Lane then shot Ford once in the head and the men fled, charging documents said.
The documents said Sadie Watson, of Pittsburgh, told police that Lane said he wanted to kill someone. She is charged with conspiracy to commit robbery and evidence tampering; police said she, Rivera and Lane discussed robbing Ford via text, then deleted the messages.
The day after Ford's death, Lane took a bus to Harrisburg, police said.
Pittsburgh detectives interviewed Lane at Lancaster County Prison, where he was being held in the carjacking case, on March 3 and filed charges on March 6. He is being held at Allegheny County Jail without bail.
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