Even as he learned he would spend many years behind bars, the second thug to be convicted in the brutal murder of Tayshana (Chicken) Murphy more than 2 1/2 years ago insisted he was getting a raw ...

A Harlem gang member — and brother of slain high- school basketball star Tayshana “Chicken” Murphy — was slapped Friday with a 50-years-to-life sentence for murdering a rival thug by a ...

Bishop Loughlin girls basketball coach Kasim Alston used the memory of Tayshana (Chicken) Murphy as the catalyst for the Lions’ run to a state Federation Class ‘A’ championship last March.

Robert Cartagena, right, was sentenced 25 years to life in the murder of high school basketball star Tayshana "chicken" Murphy . Kendall Rodriguez/Gregory P. Mango The Harlem brute convicted of ...

(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Harlem girls basketball star Tayshana ... the 18-year-old Murphy with a gunshot wound to the head. She was pronounced dead at the scene. Nicknamed "Chicken," Murphy was one ...

NEW YORK -- One day after thousands came to Tayshana Murphy's wake ... star who was killed less than a week ago. Murphy, 18, known as "Chicken," was a point guard for Murry Bergtraum High School.

Earlier this month high school basketball star Tayshana “Chicken” Murphy was shot down in her Harlem apartment building and today police have arrested two men in relation to her untimely death.

He had just watched as the Lady Blazers ran around MSG with a black frame containing a large photo of his daughter, Tayshana "Chicken" Murphy, who was shot and killed in September. Murphy even ...

Tayshana "Chicken" Murphy, the 18-year-old senior girls basketball player at Murry Bergtraum in Manhattan who was killed this weekend, may have been targeted along with her brothers, a law ...

Tayshana "Chicken" Murphy, 18, was with friends at a party around 4:15 a.m. E.T. at a housing project in Harlem when the other group arrived and an argument ensued. Murphy was shot once in the ...