Man sentenced to 30 years in prison for murder of teenager at New Jersey gas station

🔴 Bucks County man convicted of first-degree murder

🔴 A teenager confronted with a stolen car

🔴 He shot a 14-year-old boy in the head

MOUNT HOLLY — A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the shooting death of a teenager at a New Jersey gas station nearly three years ago.

Burlington County prosecutors say Tamir Phillips, 24, of Bensalem, will not be eligible for parole. He was sentenced Friday.

Phillips was convicted in November of first-degree murder and weapons charges in the August 2021 shooting death of Jesse Everett, 14, of Willingboro. Jurors in Mount Holly deliberated for about eight hours over two days before convicting the defendant.

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Prosecutors said Phillips was walking past the gas station when he saw Everett in a car that had been reported stolen a day earlier. The owner of that car frequently allowed Phillips to use the vehicle, prosecutors said.

The driver passing the station stopped and stopped behind the stolen car. Phillips came out and confronted Everett before firing a single shot that hit Everett in the head, prosecutors said.

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Everett died hours later at Cooper University Medical Center in Camden. The two other people who were in the car with the victim were not injured.

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