Man Pleads Guilty To Murder In What He Originally Claimed Was Romeo & Juliet Style Suicide
PHOENIXVILLE, Pa. (CBS) -- A Phoenixville man will spend at least 10-years in prison after pleading guilty to third degree murder, for injecting a lethal dose of cocaine into a 27-year-old woman last December in Montgomery County.
Twenty-seven-year-old Anthony Noble is sentenced 10-25 years in prison as part of a negotiated plea to third degree murder.
Noble shot two needles of cocaine into the arm of Joette Mullen last December in a car parked at the Schuylkill Canal Park in Upper Providence, Montgomery County.
Noble told investigators he and Mullen were, in his words, going to go out like Romeo and Juliet, claiming he was just helping her carry out her wishes.
But prosecutor Kathleen McLaughlin says, "There's evidence that, you know – the text messages that they had between each other right beforehand, text messages to her mom. This was not something she was planning that night."
Mullen's mother Linda Ward took the stand, asking why Noble why he killed her daughter, and who appointed him executioner.
Noble quietly addressed the court, saying he is sorry, and he wishes he could take it all back.