Former high school football player sentenced for double murder

ALIQUIPPA, Pa. — A Beaver County teenager was sentenced to decades in prison Tuesday for his September conviction for setting up a 2016 robbery that ended with two teens being murdered.

Ronald Foster was sentenced to 34-70 years for the crime.

The judge said the courtroom was filled with pain.

The victim impact statements were intense as three mothers told the court they lost their only sons that night: two to murder, one to prison.

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A half-gram of marijuana in a $160 drug deal that Foster set up turned into a robbery/murder in 2016.

It's why two of the women were in the courtroom to speak for their murdered sons who can't.

Cade Booher, who was 16 years old, took a 15-minute ride to Aliquippa that led to his death; his mother said it also metaphorically ended her life.

She told the judge, "I'm in hell, living hell everyday. Cade was brutally taken in the most horrific way. I will never recover."

Dane Mathesius, 17, was an accomplished pianist. His mother told Foster, "What you did was evil, pure evil."

Foster, who was 17 years old at the time of the killings, took the stand Tuesday, crying as he told the court, "My apologies to the victims' families. I wish I could exchange my life with theirs. I ask you to forgive me. If not now, some day."

"The actions of these three young men to take a gun into a marijuana deal resulted in three families being destroyed and the three families of the boys in the car being destroyed and it's put a stain across all of Beaver County," Beaver County District Attorney David Lozier said.

Lozier mentioned three lives in the car because a 13-year-old boy who was in the front seat survived the shooting and was a key witness in the trial.

The accused shooter, Lawrence Reddick, should be going on trial within the next couple of months.

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