PANAMA CITY — The case of a murder witness who was left dead for several summer days in a car trunk has reached a conclusion.
The final suspect connected with the death of 24-year-old Tavish Greene has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
Tyricka Woullard, 20, pleaded no contest Wednesday to accessory after the fact to manslaughter with a firearm and principal to robbery. Woullard accepted a plea agreement to 10 years in prison. She was one of the three conspirators arrested after police discovered the body of Greene badly decomposed in the trunk of his car, and she was the last to accept a plea deal.
Attorneys were waiting for the results of a mental competency evaluation since February before proceeding. Woullard’s plea deal coincided with the return of those results. However, family members were less than pleased with the length of Woullard’s sentence, according to prosecutor Bob Sombathy.
Greene’s mother “really believes Tyricka was more responsible for the murder,” Sombathy said. “We just did not have enough evidence to follow through with her gut instinct.”
Family members also were dissatisfied with the sentences of the two men who assisted in Greene’s death.
Darryl Mack, 21, and Dontavis Terrell Thomas, 22, previously reached a deal with state prosecutors. Mack accepted a reduced charge from second-degree murder to manslaughter and was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Thomas was sentenced to five years probation for being an accessory after the murder and agreed to testify in the cases against Woullard and Mack.
Police reported the three suspects lured Greene to Woullard’s residence at 3710 W. 21st St., where they planned to rob him the morning of July 19.
Thomas and Mack allegedly used phone calls and text messages to draw Greene into a trap through Woullard, his ex-girlfriend. The three hid inside, lying in wait to rob Greene of money and illegal narcotics. Woullard helped clean up the murder scene fled with Mack to Georgia the day after, police reported.
Thomas remained behind and was arrested after police found Mack shot to death in the trunk of his 2004 Chevy Malibu behind an abandoned home at 526 E. Eighth Court.
Greene was one of several witnesses to a nightclub argument in June that ended in the shooting death of 19-year-old Jshun Smith. He allegedly received death threats before being reported missing.
However, investigators did not link his death to what he witnessed.
Greene was last seen alive July 18 at about 2:30 a.m. leaving Big Daddy’s near the corner of 12th Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, witnesses reported.
Nearly two blocks away, he had seen his cousin, Smith, the passenger in his car, get shot in the head more than a month before.
When police arrived at that shooting outside KJ’s Nightclub, 908 Martin Luther King Blvd., at about 3:20 a.m. Smith, of Atlanta, lay in the roadway with a gunshot wound to the head, police reported.
Witnesses told police they saw Khiry Ross, 24, of Panama City, in an argument with Smith before gunfire rang out in KJs parking lot. Smith was struck in the head and tumbled out of Greene’s car as the vehicle sped away, police reported.
Ross still faces second-degree murder charges related to the shooting.