
Left: Erin Taylor (Montgomery County District Attorney’s Office). Right: Lesley Luna Pantaleon (Montgomery Police Department).
Erin Taylor, 20, who stopped off for smoothies from McDonald’s with her co-defendants after they viciously murdered 17-year-old Lesley Luna Pantaleon, was sentenced to spend 50 years in prison on Thursday.
As Law&Crime previously reported, Taylor was one of three young women who were charged as adults in Pantaleon’s 2020 slaying in Alabama. Taylor was 16 at the time of Pantaleon’s murder. She was charged as an adult alongside Ta’Niya Merriweather, Tyeshia Whisenant and Keontae Davidson.
Whisenant pleaded guilty to lesser murder charge in June. She was initially facing a capital murder charge. A sentencing date has not yet been set for her. Davidson, now 20 years old, pleaded guilty to murder as well and will be sentenced on Sept. 12. Merriweather, also 20, is awaiting trial, according to local NBC affiliate WFSA,