Shooter gets 10 years for killing Ewing rapper Savy G in robbery plot
TRENTON » The triggerman who shot and killed Ewing rapper Devon “Savy G” Green in 2017 is serving a decadelong prison sentence.
Kyree Hill, 20, of Trenton, received his legal punishment last week after pleading guilty in the case, confessing his role in the brazen robbery-turned-homicide.
Superior Court Judge Peter Warshaw sentenced Hill to 10 years of incarceration on Feb. 20, ordering the defendant to serve 85 percent of the term behind bars before any potential release on parole.
Hill and three co-defendants targeted Green in a planned robbery that quickly turned deadly about 1 a.m. Oct. 19, 2017. Hill wielded a rifle-style long gun and fired multiple shots, killing the 23-year-old rapper in the carport area of his Lanning Street residence in Ewing Township.
Hill pleaded guilty to firstdegree aggravated manslaughter last December, records show.
The other guilty parties include Coson Taylor, 21, of Trenton; Damonte Smith, 22, of Ewing; and Voshon McCray, 22, of Ewing.
A trial jury convicted Taylor on Oct. 12, 2018, finding him guilty of first-degree armed robbery, first-degree conspiracy to commit armed robbery, second-degree possession of a firearm for an unlawful purpose and thirddegree unlawful possession of a rifle or shotgun. The jury acquitted Taylor of first-degree murder but his robbery conviction landed him in prison for a 15-year term of confinement.
Smith pleaded guilty Dec. 10, 2019, to first-degree armed robbery and received a seven-year prison sentence last week under his plea deal, records show.
McCray in July 2018 pleaded guilty to first-degree armed robbery, admitting he was the lookout man in the deadly scheme. A grand jury originally indicted McCray on murder charges and weapons offenses, but those counts will be dismissed when he is sentenced on the robbery count next month, according to his plea deal.
Police arrested all four codefendants in the immediate weeks following the October 2017 slaying.
Smith and Hill pleaded guilty last December following their May 2019 mistrial. Warshaw sentenced both men Feb. 20 in accordance with their plea deals, finding the terms to be “fair and in the interests of justice.”
The prison sentences against Hill, Taylor and Smith require each of them to pay $6,500 in restitution joint and several, court records show.
Taylor has a current parole eligibility date of Aug. 19, 2030; Hill has a current parole eligibility date of May 4, 2026; and Smith has a current parole eligibility date of Oct. 29, 2023, according to the New Jersey Department of Corrections.
McCray is scheduled to be sentenced 9 a.m. March 6 before Warshaw at the Mercer County Criminal Courthouse.
Years before getting shot and killed at the age of 23, Devon Green was honored in 2012 for a business idea he had conceived as a teenage student, a savvy concept that earned him a $250 prize.
Known as General Savy G to hundreds of thousands of people who follow a local Snapchat group, Green was a hip-hop artist who had generated a large fan base mainly by compiling rhymes about smoking pot. He was an alumnus of Ewing High School.