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Two Gloucester Citizens Sentenced in 2017 Homicide

Reporter Austin Kent

Two of the three suspects in a fatal double shooting back in Gloucester of 2017 have been sentenced. Three suspects were arrested in the week following the deadly shooting: Amanda Epps, Kenneth Miller and Charles Riley. Kenneth Miller and Amanda Epps have been given their sentences after the 2017 double homicide of 29-year old Helga Marie Frost and 24-year old Eleni Gabrielle Wright-Bonnette.

On Monday, Miller got 50 years each for two counts of first-degree murder, 60 years combined for two robbery charges and three years for use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, which sums up to a total of 163 years.

Epps was sentenced to 20 years each for two counts of first-degree murder, which is time she will serve concurrently. She got three additional years for use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.

Late in the evening of Dec. 11, deputies went to Bellehaven Road in Gloucester Point, where a woman had been shot in a bedroom of her duplex. Helga Marie Frost, died at the scene.

Eleni Gabrielle Wright-Bonnette, a York County resident and Frost’s roommate, was airlifted to a hospital where she died the next day.

Miller was arrested the day after, according to court records.

Surveillance video showed a man with a gun followed them into the bedroom before firing multiple times, court documents said.

Amanda Katheryn Epps, a 23-year-old Hayes woman, told investigators that she drove to the house with Miller to rob it, according to court documents. She said he had taken a safe with $17,000 in it from inside the duplex and told Epps he had to kill the roommates because they were about to call 911.

Epps was charged with two counts of first-degree murder as well as using a firearm in a felony. Charley Lewis Riley, a 27-year-old Topping man, was charged with two counts of accessory to murder.

Riley told investigators that he gave Miller the gun and heard gunshots in the house while he was in the car outside, according to court documents. He also said he got rid of the last bullet in the gun when Miller came back.