The District Attorney’s Office is weighing whether it will offer plea agreements for two people charged with the February murder of a local transgender woman.
Attorneys for Jose Pena and Tiffany Floyd were back in court Tuesday for a pre-trial hearing in the murder of Maya Young.
Police found Young suffering from stab wounds to the neck and chest Feb. 20 in the 4900 block of Griscom Street in Frankford. The stabbing allegedly stemmed from an argument over a man, according to statements from the defendants read in court this summer.
DA spokesperson Cameron Kline told PGN this week that attorneys for Floyd and Pena requested potential plea agreements.
“An offer was requested,” Kline told PGN in an email. “We are currently making the decision about if we will or will not make an offer.”
Details about potential plea deals were not available by presstime.
According to court dockets, “the Commonwealth will convey an offer on or before” Dec. 1. A pre-trial conference is slated for 9 a.m. Dec. 6 in Room 1105 of the Criminal Justice Center, 1301 Filbert St. Senior Judge Kathryn Streeter Lewis will preside.
Pena is charged with murder, conspiracy, firearms offenses and possession of an instrument of crime. Floyd is charged with murder, conspiracy and possession of an instrument of crime.
Pena, 20, remains incarcerated at Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility, while Floyd, 25, is incarcerated at Riverside Correctional Facility.
According to Pena’s statement, Floyd and Young had been feuding over a man and Floyd allegedly asked him to help her kill Young. After Floyd and Young smoked crack, Pena said Floyd stabbed Young at a Frankford park, prompting Young to flee. Pena said Floyd told him he had to “finish” the victim or she would have him killed, so he followed Young and also stabbed her.
Floyd said in her statement that she did not intend to kill when they met to smoke crack. She contended that, after she stabbed Young, Pena decided on his own to follow her out of the park and stab her.