Prosecutors dismissed a murder charge against a St. Albans woman Monday after she pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree robbery.
Shayla N. Stephenson, 22, initially was charged with murder and first-degree robbery in the January slaying of Kalvon Casdorph at a Cross Lanes motel.
Stephenson has also agreed to testify against Marcus Dominick Curtis and Terrick D. Hogan, who are both charged with murder in the shooting death of Casdorph, according to a news release from assistant Kanawha prosecutor Maryclaire Akers. She faces one to five years in jail, but won't be sentenced until after prosecution of Curtis and Hogan has concluded.
Casdorph was found lying dead on the floor of a motel room at Motel 6 in Cross Lanes. Police arrested Curtis, Hogan and Stephenson after a pursuit that started at the motel, located at 330 Goff Mountain Road, and ended at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and Rebecca Street in Charleston.
Curtis, 25, of Dunbar, and Hogan, 26, of St. Albans, also are charged with first-degree robbery.
Stephenson told Kanawha Circuit Judge Charles King on Monday that she retrieved a gun from the home of Hogan's grandmother at the request of Curtis. The two then went to Motel 6 in Cross Lanes to meet Hogan, the release states.
Stephenson said she didn't know the plan was to rob Casdorph until Curtis requested she tie a scarf around his face.
Hogan left Casdorph's room and joined her in the car, and then Curtis shot Casdorph, Stephenson told the judge.