Teen Sentenced to 3 Years for the Death of Lyft Driver

A judge has sentenced a 16-year-old to three years in prison for the death of a Lyft driver in a shooting from back in 2023.

On Thursday, Judge Kendra Briggs sentenced the shooter for the death of Nasrat Ahmad Yar. According to a former colleague of Yar, the teen pleaded guilty to felony murder in January. The plea agreement was a sentence of 17 months, to be released on his 18th birthday.

Judge Briggs added more time, bringing the shooter’s sentencing up to 36 months with a release date of March 2028. Friends and family of Yar felt even with the added time, the punishment is not enough for the loss they have suffered.

“In the grand scheme of things what actually would have been justice would have been a sentence that would have been proportionate to him being sentenced to as an adult,” said Jeramie Malone, a friend of Yar.

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“I didn’t get the sense that he was actually remorseful,” said Malone.

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On July 3, 2023, Yar was finishing his Lyft shift along 11th Street, Northeast when a group of teen boys attempted to carjack him. Officers arrived just after midnight, where they found Yar with a gunshot wound in his car. {snip}

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