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Khairyi Burgess, 23, will spend 12 years behind bars followed by five years of supervised release, US Attorney Jacqueline Romero said in a statement Thursday, Nov. 17.
He must also pay $1 million in restitution to the victims, she added.
Investigators say Burgess worked with two accomplices to break into a south Philadelphia home and rob the family that lived there at gunpoint in August 2018.
The trio entered the home and walked into a 17-year-old girl's bedroom before pulling her from her bed and striking her "several times," Romero said.
Then, the robbers bilked the family for their life savings at gunpoint, stealing $1 million in cash and jewelry — "the proceeds of their restaurant business a block-and-a-half away on Washington Avenue," prosecutors wrote.
Burgess' accomplices, Demetrius Ceasar and Shaquan Johnson, were previously sentenced to 7.25 and 11 years in prison, respectively, Romero said.
His father Edward Burgess was also sentenced Thursday, after previously pleading guilty in May 2022 to erasing incriminating data from his son's cell phone during the initial investigation, authorities said.
The elder Burgess was sentenced to time served plus an unspecified period of supervised release, federal officials wrote.
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