Man Sentenced To 90 Years For 2020 Killing, Robbery At South Jersey Hotel: Prosecutors

A Lindenwold man will spend up to nine decades in prison after helping lure another man into a Mount Laurel hotel room and killing him, authorities said.

Jaawad Ali, 33, Lindenwold, NJ.
Photo Credit: *Burlington County Prosecutor's Office*

Chris Spiker

10/01/2024 9:51 a.m.

Jawaad Ali, 33, was sentenced on Friday, Sept. 27 to 90 years in state prison, Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia Bradshaw said in a news release. He was convicted of murder in the killing of 31-year-old Samer Alhalayqa of Camden on Friday, May 8, 2020.

Investigators said Ali, Anthony Sermond-Guyton of Clayton, and Asia Boone of Camden lured Alhalayqa to the Fairfield Inn on Century Parkway to rob him. Alhalayqa was suffocated in a third-floor room and dragged into the hallway.

Alhalayqa's debit card was used to withdraw money, order items on Amazon, and buy pizza from Papa John's.

A jury deliberated for two hours in June before finding Ali guilty of first-degree murder, kidnapping, and robbery; second-degree burglary, conspiracy to commit robbery, and desecration of human remains; third-degree wrongful impersonation; and fourth-degree credit card theft.

Sermond-Guyton and Boone have pleaded guilty to their charges in the case and are awaiting sentencing.

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