PA - Mohamed Kamara, 18, shot to death, East Lansdowne, 13 April 2010

A grieving father told a judge that the April 2010 shooting death of his 18-year-old-old son, who at the time was a student at Penn Wood High School and was looking forward to college, "has torn the family apart."

"The family continues to hemorrhage day in, day out, every hour, every minute. The pain is something we will live with until we die," said the emotional father as his son's killer Tristin Fisher, 19, admitted guilt Friday.

Judge Frank T. Hazel also formally sentenced Fisher to serve 20 to 40 years in jail, the maximum under third-degree, in the slaying.

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A 20-year-old Philadelphia man -- who authorities said was with admitted killer Tristin Fisher when a Penn Wood High School student was gunned down a year ago in East Lansdowne -- has been acquitted of all charges by a jury.

Devon Lamar Ellis Jr., who was not facing charges in the death of Penn Wood senior Mohamed Kamara, was acquitted Wednesday night of charges that he possessed a gun and stole a cell phone following the fatal shooting committed by his cousin.

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