Three of four Louisiana teenagers charged with murder for carjacking and dragging a grandmother to her death have struck a plea deal to avoid life in prison. Briniyah Baker, 17, Lenyra Theophile, 16, and Mar’qel Curtis pleaded guilty to attempted manslaughter for killing 73-year-old Linda Frickey in New Orleans on Monday, 4 WWL reported. The three teens were dealt a 20-year prison sentence and will serve at least 15 years each. The guilty plea comes more than a year after Frickey’s gruesome death, in which her arm was severed.
However, the family will have to return to the courtroom to hear about the death of their loved one in detail as a fourth defendant, John Honore, 18, will be going to trial. “John Honore deserves no mercy,” said Richard. “We’ll give him the same mercy he gave Linda. None.” “We want him to get the maximum. He drove the car. He stomped on her,” said Griffin. “The girls, they were all there for the ride, but the issue we had with them is they didn’t do anything to stop it.” All four defendants had been charged as adults with second-degree murder in connection to Frickey’s death after they violently carjacked her in a New Orleans neighborhood and dragged her for nearly a block after her arm got stuck in her seatbelt in March 2022.
Disregarding the grandmother’s life, the teens reportedly stopped the vehicle to open the door so Honore could kick the grandmother into the street after her arm detached and her clothing stripped away. Frickey was trying to put something in her car when the teens “jumped in and kicked her out, and she got caught in the wheel well,” an eyewitness told WWL-TV at the time.
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