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3rd sentence in drug slaying

PITTSBURGH — A third person has been sentenced in the kidnapping and slaying of a Pittsburgh man last year that authorities said stemmed from a drug deal gone bad.

Erica Harris, 25, apologized before she was sentenced to 20 to 45 years in the March 2016 death of 21-year-old Saevon Scott-Ponder, whose bullet-riddled body was found near Beltzhoover.

Mitchell Coles, 22, and Johnnie Raines, 21, also pleaded guilty to third-degree murder. Coles was sentenced to 20 to 50 years and Raines to 20 to 45 years.

Authorities said the three were seeking the victim over a drug debt, and the two men led him into the woods, told him to take off his shoes and then shot him 14 times with one gun.

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