Two men have been sentenced to prison — one for the rest of his life — after being convicted for the July 2020 shooting death of a young rapper in West Philadelphia. On Tuesday, Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner announced sentencings for Bahij Dini and Donovan K. Williams who, Kra sner said, were both convicted in the Sunday, July 5, 2020, shooting death of Aamir Johnson Daye, 18, that happened at a home on the 1400 block of North 61st Street in West Philadelphia. There are additional resources for people or communities that have endured gun violence in Philadelphia. Further information can be found here. in this shooting, Krasner said another man, named Hezekiah Evans, was also targeted by the attackers. Krasner noted Evans, who survived the shooting, was later killed in a separate incident that is still under investigation. As detailed by WHYY’s Billy Penn at the time of the shooting, Daye was a rapper who performed under the name of D4M Skiano. “This case took years, simply put,” Krasner said. According to Krasner, it took more than 15 months to track down one of the men sought in this deadly shooting and the other, he said, wasn’t captured until three years later. Dini, he noted, pleaded guilty to the charges involved in Daye’s death and was sentenced to 13-and-a-half to 42 years in prison. Williams was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole after being found guilty of murder, aggravated assault and related offenses at trial. During Tuesday’s event to announce these convictions, Krasner said his office is still seeking information on this incident as a third or fourth suspect may be involved. In this shooting, Krasner said, the gunmen fired into a home that was occupied by several residents — including children — during the incident that killed Daye. During the event Tuesday, Assistant District Attorney Jeff Hojnowski, Assistant Chief of the District Attorney’s Office’s Homicide and Non-Fatal Shootings Unit, took time to discuss the investigation that led to the convictions in this deadly shooting. He said that Daye’s slaying followed just hours after, on the same evening, Angelo Walker, 15, was killed in a shooting that happened at about 8:20 p.m., on the 6100 block of Nassau Road. Hojnowski said Walker, a running back and defensive back for the Frankford High School football team, was affiliated with Dini and Williams. “When word got out that Angelo Walker was killed, there’s evidence we had that Bahij Dini went to the hospital to go check on Angelo and when he found out that he had been killed, word had quickly spread among that friends group about this,” Hojnowski said. “And we believe that may have been a potential motive for why Aamir Johnson Daye and Hezekiah Evans were targeted.” Hojnowski also noted that Daye was a rapper and Dini and Williams may have intended to target those affiliated with D4M in this incident. About two hours after Williams was killed, he said, Dini and Williams — as well as at least one other person — traveled to the area near where Daye lived and waited in a car outside. Eventually, the pair traveled to a home where Evans and Daye were seated on a porch out front and the deadly shooting occurred. After Hojnowski detailed the investigation, Krasner touted the efforts of police and the prosecutors in his office to show that, even after six years, justice was served. “You do this stuff, you’re going to get caught,” Krasner said. ...read more read less