The admitted lookout in the Raleigh murder of former Bladen County resident Melissa Huggins-Jones was sentenced to 4 and one-half to 6 and one-half years in prison on Monday.
Sarah Redden, who admitted to being a lookout on the night Huggins-Jones was killed, pleaded guilty to accessory after the fact of first-degree murder. She also pled guilty to two counts of breaking and entering of an automobile and received 24 months of supervised probation for those crimes, according to court records.
Redden testified in court at the trial of Travion Smith in February about the events that lead up to Huggins-Jones murder. According to her testimony, Smith and Ronald Anthony were walking around Raleigh and looking for cars that were unlocked. Redden said they would take whatever they could find in the cars while she acted as lookout.
She testified that when they arrived at the apartments where Huggins-Jones lived, Anthony and Smith climbed onto the balcony of the apartment and went inside. Redden testified that she did not know what happened inside the apartment as she was acting as lookout.
Smith was convicted of first-degree murder in February and received a life sentence without parole and Anthony pleaded guilty to first-degree murder in 2015.
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