The Montgomery County resident who killed two Pennsylvania State Police troopers and a pedestrian last year pleaded guilty this week and will soon head to state prison.
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Jayana Tanae Webb, 23, of Eagleville in Lower Providence Township, Montgomery County, pleaded guilty to three counts of third-degree murder, three counts of homicide by vehicle while driving under the influence and one count of driving under the influence, according to a statement from the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office that was issued on Wednesday.
Webb, as part of the plea deal, will head to state prison for 27-and-a-half to 60 years. She was sentenced by Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas Judge Barbara McDermott.
Troopers Martin F. Mack III, 33, of Bristol Borough, and Branden T. Sisca, 29, of Montgomery County, were killed when Webb slammed into a parked state police patrol SUV on I-95 southbound by the stadium complex in Philadelphia as they secured the pedestrian – Reyes Rivera Oliveras, 28, of Allentown – who was on the highway just before 1 a.m. on March 21, 2022.
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The force of the crash threw the victims across the highway, state police said.
The troopers and Oliveras were killed.
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Webb was tweeting at the time of the crash, she had marijuana in her system, she had been pulled over by the troopers for speeding minutes earlier but was released due to a call for a person on the road, and her blood alcohol level was twice the legal limit at the time, according to previous testimony in the case.
According to the office of Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner, Webb will turn herself in for prison next Tuesday.
Credit: Philadelphia DAO
“Today’s conviction of Jayana Webb is a just resolution of one of the most shocking incidents of vehicular violence in recent memory,” Krasner said.
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In 2022, a city judge dropped the third-degree murder charge over what she believed was a lack of evidence and charges, but Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner’s office urged another judge to reinstate the charge. The judge at a hearing in August reinstated the charge.
The fallen lawmen were remembered at large funeral services following their deaths. Mack’s funeral mass happened in Tullytown Borough.
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A bench and a plaque to honor Mack, a husband and father, were unveiled in Bristol Borough earlier this year.
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