Woman Sentenced for Facebook Murder

Twenty-year-old Kayla Henriques of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stabbing her friend, 22-year-old Kamisha Richards, to death. Suggested Reading Trayvon Martin and Other Black Men, Women Unjustly Killed The Most Unhinged Moments from ‘The Tyra Banks Show’ How Teyana Taylor’s Daughter Stole the Entire Show at the 2026 Actor Awards…

Twenty-year-old Kayla Henriques of Brooklyn, N.Y., was sentenced to 15 years in prison for stabbing her friend, 22-year-old Kamisha Richards, to death.

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The two had been arguing over $20 that Richards lent Henriques. The argument spilled over into text messages and onto Facebook, and in February 2011, things got physical.

Henriques said in her confession that she got a knife after Richards picked up a pair of scissors during an argument. “She swung and I swung,” she wrote.

It is reported that the two exchanged threatening messages via Facebook in the days leading up to the incident.

Read more at the Daily News.

Tracy Clayton is a writer, humorist and blogger from Louisville, Ky.

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