Crime & Safety
Ex-Boyfriend Pleads Guilty In Jholie Moussa's Killing
The defendant admitted in court to killing the 16-year-old through strangulation, according to media reports.
MOUNT VERNON, VA—The ex-boyfriend of 16-year-old Jholie Moussa has pleaded guilty in her killing.
Nebiyu Ebrahim, 18, had been charged with the first-degree murder of Moussa, a teen from Mount Vernon. According to NBC4, he admitted in court to strangling Moussa to death in Woodlawn Park.
Reports indicate he had been mad about being sentenced for previously strangling Moussa and that she wanted to end the relationship. That led up to their January 2018 meeting in Woodlawn Park. He previously admitted to detectives about choking her, moving her body and covering it with leaves.
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Moussa was reported missing on Jan. 13, 2018 before police located her body in Woodlawn Park on Jan. 25. The medical examiner ruled the cause of Moussa's death to be asphyxia by smothering and blunt force trauma.
Ebrahim had originally been charged as a juvenile, but a judge ruled he would face trial as an adult. Moussa's mother told NBC4 she wanted Ebrahim to receive the maximum sentence.
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