SEATTLE — Two people who stabbed and killed a ride-share driver in Issaquah in 2020 were sentenced Friday.
Devin Wade, 24, pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder. He was sentenced to 18 years and four months in prison and 36 months in community custody. Wade's partner, Olivia Breanna-Lennon Bebic, 24, was sentenced for first-degree manslaughter. Her sentence is nine years and six months with the Department of Corrections.
The couple stabbed and killed driver Cherno Ceesay after using a fake name to create an Uber account and hail a ride, according to court documents.
Police said Ceesay was stabbed multiple times and found by a neighbor after his car crashed into a tree.
Police believed Wade and Bebic tried to rob Ceesay of his Kia Sportage. On the night of the murder, investigators say Bebic's phone was used to search for facts about auto theft.
Ceesay's phone was missing from the car, and police used GPS to track it to a car with which Wade and Bebic were associated.
Two days after the murder, Wade and Bebic were arrested for shoplifting in Bellevue.
In charging documents, Adrienne McCoy, who was a senior deputy prosecuting attorney at the time, wrote that they are “an extreme danger to the community at large."
Both Wade and Bebic initially pleaded not guilty in January 2021, but Wade changed his plea to guilty in March 2023.
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