PHILADELPHIA - A Philadelphia man will spend the rest of his life behind bars after prosecutors say he admitted to carrying out six murders as a hitman, four of which were at the bidding of a drug trafficker.
Ernest Pressley, 42, was arrested in September 2018 after local and federal authorities connected him to the murder of a victim identified as "S.S." According to investigators, the man was found shot to death in the parking lot of a Philadelphia apartment complex near the 7400 block of Malvern Avenue days before the arrest.Surveillance footage showed Pressley with the victim and other men the night before the deadly shooting.
Pressley was arrested on Sept. 7 and investigators soon found him to be responsible for several other murders, including the shooting deaths of two Philadelphia tow truck drivers.
Prosecutors say one of the tow truck drivers who Pressley was paid to kill in January 2017 was set to testify at a Philadelphia assault trial.