Montco 'Murder For Hire' Nurse Killing Case Draws First Sentence: Reports

NORRISTOWN, PA — One of two Philadelphia men recently convicted in connection with a 'murder for hire' killing of a young Bucks County nurse and mother was sentenced to life in prison for his crime Thursday, according to media reports.

Ricky Vance, 54, received his sentence in Norristown by Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge William Carpenter, according to a report in the Bucks County Courier Times.

Online court records were not yet updated as of early Thursday afternoon to reflect the sentencing.

Reporters who were inside the courtroom during sentencing stated that Rhonda Pack, Ebony Pack's mother, called her daughter a "beautiful person" during the hearing, and also calling Vance "the worst kind of evil."

Vance was convicted last month alongside Chong Dan, 50, on first-degree homicide and conspiracy charges in the November 2020 death of 30-year-old Ebony Pack of Feasterville, Bucks County.

Pack, a young mom who worked as a nurse during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, died in a drive-by shooting in Lansdale Borough.

Prosecutors had framed the killing as domestic in nature.

They claimed that Dan and Vance worked alongside a third man, Terrence Marche, to conspire to kill Pack.

Marche went on the run and has not yet been captured, authorities previously stated.

Dan is scheduled to be sentenced by Judge Carpenter this coming Monday.

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