The five gang members arrested in May 2023 in connection to the brutal beating, abduction and eventual killing of a 25-year-old Richmond woman in York County pleaded guilty to federal charges.
Tyosha Mitchell was the highest ranking female member of a Norfolk-based gang called the Mad Stone Bloods, a subset of the larger Black P. Stone Nation gang, according to police. As a condition of exiting the group, she had to be “beaten out,” court documents show.
A group of four gang members — Hezekiah Carney, 25, of Norfolk; Jamica Langley, 25, of Richmond; Donnisha Goodman, 27, of Portsmouth, and Acacia Jackson, 19, of New York — traveled to Mitchell’s Richmond apartment to beat her in the early morning hours May 6, 2023. They left only to return an hour later, this time with Jayquan Jones, 21, of Richmond. Some members of the group were armed and wore masks.
The group attacked Mitchell again, then took her away in a vehicle. They drove about an hour east to a remote area in Yorktown on Old Williamsburg Road, about halfway between Riverwalk Townes town houses and Colonial National Historical Parkway. There, the five members took her out of the car and shot her.
Her body was discovered by a jogger about 6:30 a.m. that morning near the tree line about 10 feet from Old Williamsburg Road. She had been shot eight times in the head, abdomen, back, buttocks and legs, according to the medical examiner.
Carney then told the others to avoid capture by burning their clothes, staying together and not speaking to police, prosecutors said. The vehicle used to take Mitchell away was found May 7, with Jackson, Goodman and Langley inside, along with substantial evidence, including multiple cellphones, a black mask and a bullet matching the shell casings found at the shooting site.
Carney, Goodman and Jones pleaded guilty to using a firearm to cause death and each faces a minimum of 35 years in prison with a maximum of 45. Jackson and Langley pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit kidnapping and face up to life in prison.
Jackson is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 31; Langley on Nov. 7; Goodman on Jan. 7; and Carney and Jones on Jan. 9
Gavin Stone, 757-712-4806, gavin.stone@virginiamedia.com
