THEY GOT AN ORDER TO KILL ANYONE WHO EXITED AN ACCOMPLICE’S HOUSE. THEN, THEY KILLED A BELOVED GRANDMOTHER.

Two North Carolina drug kingpins and members of the Nine Trey gang member who killed a beloved grandmother will never walk free again.

A U.S. Eastern District Court judge sentenced Jaquate Simpson, a.k.a. “Quay,” 39, and Landis Jackson, a.k.a. “Juve,” 39, Kalub Shipman, a.k.a. “Kato,” 36, and Nelson Evans, 33, to life in federal prison for the shooting death of Lillian Bond. Simpson and Jackson were found guilty and convicted by a jury of continuing criminal enterprise, murder while engaged in continuing criminal enterprise, narcotics conspiracy, murder while engaged in a drug-trafficking offense, distribution of cocaine, use of a firearm resulting in death, conspiracy to commit murder for hire, and murder for hire. Meanwhile, both Shipman and Evans were convicted of conspiracy to commit murder for hire, murder for hire, and use of firearm charges resulting in death.

“The hardest thing is knowing that she did not deserve this and that they are not remorseful. I just pray for healing for our family,” said Bond’s niece, Precious Hill, according to Law and Crime.

On April 19, 2016, around 11:30 a.m., Bond exited her home in the Ingleside neighborhood of Virginia to take out the trash when a Lexus car driven by Shipman and Evans fired multiple shots that killed the 59-year-old beloved grandmother. Prior to the fatal incident, Simpson was owed $81,000 for a multi-kilogram delivery of cocaine by Bond’s nephew, Brandon Williams. Out of frustration and to retaliate, the defendant and Jackson hired Shipman and Evans, who were members of the Nine Trey gang in North Carolina, to carry out the murder-for-hire plot of any member of Williams’s family. Simpson agreed to pay Shipman $10,000 for the hit. In October 2020, all the defendants were arrested.

According to prosecutors, Simpson gave specific information that anyone who exited the home should be killed to send a message.

"We literally have a recording where the leader said the next person out of that residence needs to get killed, needs to get shot. Murder-for-hire will probably put you away for life," said Special Agent in Charge of the FBI Norfolk Field Office Brian Dugan, reported 13 News Now.

Bond was a housekeeping supervisor at the Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughter for two decades. Family members described her as a pillar in the community.