Three Sentenced in Connection with Kidnapping and Murder; Shooter Receives Life Sentence, It was July 21st 2021, a green Jeep Grand Cherokee parked near a row home on Wilmington’s East Side. Three men emerged from the Jeep while one of their girlfriends waited behind the wheel.The gang members burst into the brick home and found their target in a bedroom.
They struck 35-year-old Mark Sellers in the head with a metal pry bar, bound the bloody man’s hands behind his back with zip-ties and dragged him from the house and into the Jeep. Sellers was shoved into the back seat and taken to Philadelphia, to the home of Dwayne Alexander, 37, a leader of the gang the Shotgun Crips.
Alexander hopped into the Jeep and told the woman to drive to Yeadon, about five miles west of Philly. Another car followed. It was close to 2 a.m. when the vehicles arrived at an industrial park bordered by the Fernwood Cemetery.
They marched Sellers outside, and one of the men fired a bullet from an assault-style rifle into his head.
Last week, three defendants were sentenced in connection with the kidnapping and murder. Kimon Burton-Roberson, 32, who executed the victim by shooting him in the head with an assault rifle, received a life sentence.
Jamil Salahuddin, 22, who helped abduct the victim out of his Wilmington home and beat him in the head with a tire iron, received a sentence of 17.5 years in prison.
Stephanie Bultes-Ramirez, 27, who drove the vehicle in which the victim was transported from Wilmington to Philadelphia and ultimately to the murder scene in Yeadon, Pennsylvania, received a sentence of 10 years in prison.
Two additional defendants are awaiting sentencing in federal court—Rodney Chambers, whose sentencing is scheduled for December 22, 2025, and Dwayne Alexander, whose sentencing is scheduled for January 27, 2026.
A sixth defendant, Josiah Rivera, is awaiting sentencing in the Superior Court for the State of Delaware. Rivera was not charged federally because he was a minor at the time of the crime.
“We appreciate the efforts of the Department of Justice to ensure that these violent offenders are held accountable for their actions,” said Wilmington Police Chief Wilfredo Campos. “These lengthy prison sentences send a clear message that senseless violence like this will never be tolerated.”
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