Syracuse, N.Y. ― A Syracuse woman avoided a murder charge at her sentencing Monday after testifying against her codefendant.

Zaira Goodin, 22, was able to take back her previous guilty plea to second-degree murder and instead was sentenced to 10 years in prison for a gun charge. Her original plea deal on the murder charge called for her to get no more than 15 years in prison.

Goodin and two others ― Vanico Spaights and Bernard Brumfield ― were charged with killing A’salic Parham , 25 in a drive-by shooting on Dec. 28, 2020.

Goodin pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon in December 2022. She was offered the chance to later withdraw her plea to murder if she testified for the prosecution.

In March, Spaights went to trial and Goodin test

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