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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Pittsburgh, PA) According to Allegheny County officials on Tuesday, two men were sentenced in separate homicide cases that claimed the lives of three victims, including a mother and her 4-year-old daughter. Twenty-three-year-old Marquise St. Julien Givner of Wilkinsburg was recently sentenced to two consecutive life terms in prison for the 2022 killings of Temani Lewis and her daughter, Kaari Thompson. A criminal complaint confirms St. Julien Givner was one of five people who opened fire on the vehicle of Lewis while it was parked outside a convenience store in the Lincoln-Lemington-Belmar neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Lewis and her daughter were both killed after being struck by the gunfire, which caused a jury to convict St. Julien Givner of two counts of first-degree murder, criminal attempt and criminal conspiracy. Twenty-six-year-old Lee McGinnis of the South Side Slopes neighborhood of Pittsburgh was sentenced on Tuesday to 10 to 20 years in prison for the 2024 killing of Eddie Kimber in a separate case. Investigators confirm that an argument broke out among McGinnis, his girlfriend, Destiny Jenkins, and Kimber at a residence the two of them shared. Court records state that Jenkins attempted to shoot Kimber, but the gun malfunctioned. McGinnis then took the gun and fatally shot Kimber in Pittsburgh. On November 17th, 2025, McGinnis was convicted of voluntary manslaughter and third-degree murder, and he was also sentenced to 9 to 18 years in prison.