Summary of Offense:
On March 17, 1990, Ballew murdered 56-year-old Donald Hill in a vacant lot on Kerper Avenue. Mr. Hill owed Ballew money for cocaine. Ballew and his four accomplices, Patrick Coffey, Ulric "Shorty" Robinson, Michael "Bounce" Johnson and Jerry Baskin, kidnapped Mr. Hill from his house, beat him and drove him to a vacant lot. Ballew then shot Mr. Hill three times in the back.
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