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Law

Two Plead Guilty In Terror/Murder Plot

Two people, one a former Raleigh school teacher, have pleaded guilty to plotting a murder-for-hire scheme in the Triangle. 

Two defendants in this case have pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder for hire.  This was not your average shoot to kill murder. Nevine Elshiekh and Shukumbin Sherifi allegedly paid someone five-thousand-dollars to be-head witnesses from a terrorism trial in Raleigh.  Turns out they were paying an FBI informant. 

The FBI informant even showed Sherifi doctored photos of the be-headed corpses.  At one point attorneys for Elshiekh had tried to get her a separate trial in the case.  The former teacher at Sterling Montessori Academy and Charter School in Morrisville had said she wasn’t aware of the murder plot.  The US Attorney’s Office says the murder-for-hire was to retaliate against witnesses who testified against Sherifi’s brother who is serving 45 years in prison for his role in terrorism-related activities.  Elshiekh and Sherifi face up to 10 years in prison.

Leoneda Inge is the co-host of WUNC's "Due South." Leoneda has been a radio journalist for more than 30 years, spending most of her career at WUNC as the Race and Southern Culture reporter. Leoneda’s work includes stories of race, slavery, memory and monuments. She has won "Gracie" awards, an Alfred I. duPont Award and several awards from the Radio, Television, Digital News Association (RTDNA). In 2017, Leoneda was named "Journalist of Distinction" by the National Association of Black Journalists.
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