A judge last week ordered two women implicated in a murder at a popular LGBT party last fall to stand trial.
Sharonda Cheeves and Jesslyn Williams faced a preliminary hearing Wednesday for their role in a melee outside the Breakfast Club in North Philadelphia Sept. 4, which left one woman dead.
A trial date has not been set.
According to testimony at the hearing, Cheeves and Williams were asked to leave the club after attempting to enter with an open container of alcohol. The pair left but returned a few minutes later in a Chevy Monte Carlo, which they allegedly drove into a crowd gathered outside the club at 2315 N. Eighth St.
The women allegedly circled the block numerous times, changing drivers at least once, and repeatedly driving into the crowd.
Investigators say Cheeves, 24, was at the wheel when the car struck club patron Alisha Moore, 27, pinning her underneath the car.
Cheeves will face charges of driving under the influence, reckless endangerment, murder, vehicular homicide and related charges. Williams, 23, will also face DUI and endangerment charges, as well as a slew of assault charges, as investigators say she was driving the vehicle when it struck and injured at least five people.
Municipal Court Judge Jimmie Moore dropped assault charges against Cheeves during the hearing. Cheeves remains in prison, while Williams is free on bail.
Kadella Davis, also known as Mother Breakfast, runs the LGBT parties, which are popular with the ballroom community, and was among the injured.
Davis, 61, testified during the hearing that she asked the women up to five times to leave the premises.
Davis spent more than three weeks in the hospital for injuries she sustained in the incident, which included a broken pelvis; arm, vertebrae and facial fractures; and the loss of most of her teeth.
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