Posted on Thu, Oct. 29, 2009
Michael Cropps of Chester was sentenced Tuesday in Delaware County Court to 19 to 46 years in prison for the 2004 murder of 20-year-old William Trippley in Chester.
Cropps, 25, was charged with third-degree murder, possession of firearms without a license, and aggravated assault on an officer. He was arrested in September 2008 after being on the lam since the killing, and pleaded guilty in July.
Cropps and Trippley were childhood friends. About 3:25 p.m. on Easter in 2004, Cropps was involved in a gunfight with Jermany Akeem Dorsey, 20, on Edgmont Avenue. Trippley was walking in the area, got caught in the cross fire, and was shot in the head. He died the next day.
Trippley played in the Eastern Pennsylvania Youth Soccer Association, and was considered a star on his team at the Shipley School in Bryn Mawr. His mother, Patricia, created the William Trippley Youth Development Foundation, establishing a youth soccer league in Chester, to memorialize her son. - Deena ElGenaidi
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