Published June 12. 2025 01:46PM
State Attorney General Dave Sunday has announced the sentencing of Yzire Jenkins-Rowe, 28, for the 2018 killing of a young Bethlehem man.
Jenkins-Rowe and three others, member of a gang that to as “Money Rules Everything,” stabbed 18-year-old Tyrell Holmes four times in the neck and torso. At an apartment complex off Emmaus Avenue, they threw him into a Dumpster in a parking lot, and set him on fire.
Investigators determined Holmes had lived with Yzire Jenkins-Rowe and Alkiohn Dunkins for a period of time, and Holmes had told others he feared he would be killed.
Phone records, surveillance video, and other evidence led to the arrests of Jenkins-Rowe; Alkiohn Dunkins, 26; Miles Harper, 26, of Allentown; and Zahmire Welcome, 26, of Whitehall.
Jenkins-Rowe pleaded guilty to third-degree murder, criminal conspiracy to commit murder, and arson, and is to serve 27 and a half to 60 years in prison.
Harper has already pleaded guilty to aggravated arson and is awaiting sentencing. Welcome has a trial scheduled for Sept. 29. Dunkins, who was found guilty by a jury earlier this year, will be sentenced June 24.
This case was prosecuted by Senior Deputy Attorney General Christopher Phillips and Senior Deputy Attorney General Katherine McDermott.