Two life sentences for man who killed Wilmington TikTok star Swavy and local entrepreneur

(This story has been updated to correct Israel Lecompte's age. He is 21.)

A young man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the killings of a local TikTok star and another young entrepreneur in 2021.

Israel Lecompte, 21, was sentenced earlier this month to two mandatory life sentences plus 163 years for the murder of 22-year-old Quinton Dorsey and 19-year-old Matima Miller.

Dorsey was building a following as a clothing designer and entrepreneur under his Bag Season brand . Miller was known online as Swavy on TikTok, where millions of followers watched him style and dance around the city and beyond.

Lecompte had just turned 18 years old when Miller and Dorsey were murdered so his first-degree murder conviction mandates a life sentence without chance of parole.

Earlier this year, a jury heard three weeks of trial testimony and convicted him of the two murders, as well as a slew of other charges related to another, non-fatal shooting and multiple robberies that occurred in the summer of 2021.

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Separately, Lecompte was already sentenced to 27 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder for another 2021 fatal shooting.

In a written statement, a spokesperson for Attorney General Kathy Jennings said Lecompte’s sentencing was the last in her office’s prosecution of the NorthPak gang, which has led to more than 150 felony convictions.

A month before the shootings of Dorsey and Miller, prosecutors indicted dozens of young men, accusing them of felony gang participation in the NorthPak gang, as well as a slew of other crimes including murders. At trial, prosecutors said Lecompte wanted to keep the gang on the offensive after those arrests.

Over numerous trials, prosecutors have said NorthPak's feud with other groups of young friends in the city was the motive for multiple killings of young men in Wilmington around that time.

Citing testimony from a state gang expert, as well as young men who had been charged with crimes tied to the gangs, prosecutors have said the groups largely exist to taunt and harm other affiliated teens in the city and build a reputation on social media.

Deputy Attorney General Anthony Hill told the jury in Lecompte’s latest trial that both Dorsey and Miller were killed not as members of a rival gang, but by association.

In all, the prosecution of NorthPak defendants, who were primarily young men often in their teens, resulted in six life sentences, as well as an additional 400 years of prison time, Jennings' statement said.

Contact Xerxes Wilson at (302) 324-2787 or xwilson@delawareonline.com.

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