Charles Fulforth (left) and Kelvin Roberts, seen here during their trial earlier this year, were sentenced Thursday to life in prison. Read more Vinny Vella / Staff

by Vinny Vella Published Sept. 25, 2025, 5:25 p.m. ET

Charles Fulforth, Kelvin Roberts, and Jeremy Fuentes planned what they believed would a be simple burglary : Break in, steal a cache of weapons stored inside gun safes, and leave.

Instead, they carried out a doomed break-in at the wrong home in Lower Merion that left one man dead, his mother permanently paralyzed, and a family and community heartbroken.

And on Thursday, inside a packed courtroom in the Montgomery County Courthouse, all three men were sentenced to life in prison for their crimes, which Judge Risa Vetri Ferman described as “pure, pure evil.”

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