Fifteen months after he killed Wayne Ellington's father on a Philadelphia street corner, Carl White pleaded guilty this week to murder charges and is likely to spend between the next 30-to-60 years behind bars.
Online court documents show White pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and other charges in a deal with prosecutors on Tuesday, after the Philadelphia jury was selected for his trial. For Ellington, the move brought some closure but no relief from the pain of losing a father.
"It's bittersweet," he said at practice Wednesday in Brooklyn. "You always want justice to be served, but at the same time none of that could ever bring my father back.