Woman pleads guilty in killing of CCP basketball player in 2013

A woman suspected in the 2013 slaying of 23-year-old Micah Fisher in a landlord-tenant dispute pleaded guilty to murder on Monday, less than a year after retracting her first guilty plea.

Brittany Young, 26, also pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges.

Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Judge Rose DeFino-Nastasi warned Young that this guilty plea would be almost impossible to retract.

"You cannot go on back and withdraw your plea again," she told Young. "I'll deny it."

Prosecutors say that on Nov. 9, 2013, Young encouraged her boyfriend, Shawn Allen, to get a gun and shoot into an occupied basement apartment on Broad Street near Colwyn Street in Hunting Park.

Prosecutors said Allen and Young were with a group of people who had accompanied the building owner when she went to the site late at night to evict the tenants.

Assistant District Attorney Thomas Lipscomb, backed by witness testimony from earlier hearings, said Young became angry during confrontation that followed after the landlord and his group arrived - and urged Allen and others to get armed.

"Get me a gun," Young said, according to the testimony read by Lipscomb.

She also allegedly told tenants of the apartment: "My boyfriend better come back and kill y'all."

And: "Y'all going to die."

The shooting started soon after some in the group returned with the firearms.

Lipscomb said crime-scene evidence "strongly suggested" another shooter in addition to Allen. That second person has yet to be identified.

Fisher, who was staying with a friend for the night inside the basement apartment, was shot in the abdomen and died at Temple University Hospital. Authorities said he was not involved in the argument.

Fisher, who lived in East Mount Airy, played basketball for the Community College of Philadelphia. He was enrolled in classes when he was killed, and the school honored him by retiring the number 11 jersey, which he wore during his time with the team.

Allen pleaded guilty in April 2015 to third-degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and three gun-related offenses, and was sentenced 22 to 60 years in state prison. Young also plead guilty in April 2015, but three months later, she retracted her plea and switched attorneys, hiring Jeremy Alva.

The courtroom was ready for a trial on Monday - prospective jurors gathered in an adjacent room - when Young decided to plead guilty for the second time.

Young is scheduled to be sentenced on June 23. She faces a maximum sentence of 80 years in prison.

JTomczuk@phillynews.com @JackTomczuk