Tymel K. Kenney was a 20-year-old Black/African American male from Wilmington, Delaware, whose life ended on May 28, 2015, after a shooting in Allentown, Pennsylvania. What began as an ordinary walk on a sidewalk became a deadly confrontation tied to jealousy and a past relationship. Kenney was walking with a woman who had previously been in a relationship with Tyreek Aziz Muldrow when Muldrow drove past them, left, retrieved a firearm, and returned to open fire.
Kenney was struck
multiple times and later pronounced dead at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Salisbury Township. Authorities identified his cause of death as gunshot wounds, and the Lehigh County Coroner’s Office ruled the death a homicide. The woman walking with him was also shot and seriously injured, turning the incident into both a murder case and an attempted murder case.
Investigators focused on Tyreek Aziz Muldrow, who was accused of being the shooter. Court records later stated that Muldrow confessed to police that he had opened fire on Kenney and the woman. Prosecutors charged him with multiple crimes, including third-degree murder for Kenney’s death and attempted murder involving the surviving victim. The case was described in court as a shooting that happened after Muldrow encountered his ex-girlfriend with another man, then armed himself and attacked them.
Muldrow did not take the case to a full trial. In January 2016, he entered a negotiated guilty plea. As part of that plea agreement, he accepted a fixed sentence of 20 to 40 years in prison for third-degree murder and another fixed sentence of 20 to 40 years for attempted murder causing serious bodily injury. Those sentences were ordered to run consecutively, bringing the total punishment to 40 to 80 years in state prison.
After sentencing, Muldrow did not file a direct appeal, but he later pursued post-conviction relief. His first petition was denied, and years later he filed another petition, which the courts found untimely. In 2023, the Pennsylvania Superior Court upheld the dismissal of that later petition, leaving the conviction and sentence in place. The court record made clear that the legal outcome remained unchanged: Muldrow’s guilty plea stood, and so did the 40-to-80-year sentence.
Kenney’s obituary remembered him as a son, brother, grandson, and loved one surrounded by family and friends. His funeral arrangements were held in Wilmington, the city connected to his family and his life before the shooting. The public record of the case leaves behind a stark story: Kenney was walking with someone when a former relationship turned violent, and the man who admitted to firing the shots was arrested, charged, convicted by guilty plea, and sentenced to decades in prison.
