Northeast man admits to carjacking, killing

An 18-year-old man from Northeast Philadelphia admitted today that he and three others carjacked a woman from the city and killed her in South Jersey after driving her around for five hours.

Kareem Harrison pleaded guilty today to aggravated manslaughter and admitted his role in the death of Lyudmila Burshteyn, 57, a Russian immigrant abducted while she was in her car in the Northeast last year.

Harrison appeared in a Burlington County courtroom where Burshteyn's two children sat calmly listening to the details surrounding their mother's death.

Three other Philadelphia men remain in prison, pending indictment.

Burshteyn's body was discovered Sept. 2 in a wooded area of Mansfield Township after she was reported missing in Philadelphia.

Harrison and the others were arrested in Summerton, S.C., shortly after the slaying. Police there pulled the men over in Burshteyn's 2009 Nissan Murano for a traffic violation.

Also arrested was Marcus White, 19; Lenroy Laurance, 28 and Robby Willis, 27.

Harrison, who was 17 at the time of the slaying, faces more than 25 years in jail under a plea agreement his attorney worked out with prosecutors. Prosecutors, in exchange, agreed to dismiss the murder charge that could have sent him to jail for life.