Basketball star's cousin sentenced to 9-20 years

0 Comments | Philadelphia Inquirer, The, June, 2009 | by Mari A. Schaefer Inquirer Staff Writer

Dressed in red prison scrubs and a long-sleeved white T-shirt, Jamar Evans, cousin of basketball standout Tyreke Evans, sat quietly in a Delaware County courtroom yesterday, waiting to hear just how long he would spend in prison for the murder of a Chester man.

In the rear of the large courtroom, two sheriff deputies and their canine companions also waited, watching for signs of trouble from the supporters gathered for Evans and the family of Marcus Reason, the 18-year-old victim. At a hearing in April, the families had exchanged heated words outside the courthouse and needed to be separated.

Members of both groups wept, some rocking back and forth, in the moments before Judge Ann A. Osborne sentenced Jamar Evans to nine to 20 years for murder and other weapons...