Newark schoolyard murders

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- For what seemed a small eternity, Shalga Hightower epitomized the picture of parental grief in the aftermath of Newark's 2007 schoolyard killings, when a group of men and boys, including one who turned 15 that day, lined up her college-bound daughter and two friends and shot them each in the back of the head.

The only defendant to admit his role in the 2007 slayings of three college students in a Newark schoolyard has been sentenced.

A defendant in the 2007 slayings of three college students in a Newark schoolyard has been sentenced to 155 years in prison.

Another defendant has been convicted in the execution-style killings of three Newark friends in 2007.