Philly DA Secures First Degree Murder Conviction In Rhawnhurst Murder
by Alex Lloyd Gross
Rasheed Robinson will be spending the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of first degree murder . He killed25-year-old Deja Lewis in her Napfle Street apartment in October 2022, District Attorney Larry Krasner said.
Investigators determined that Robinson murdered her one day prior to her body being found. Krasner said that an argument was the motive. Robinson had been staying with her after murdering Lewis’ stepfather in August 2021. At the time of Lewis’ murder, there was an active arrest warrant for Robinson for his role in the stepfather’s homicide.
He was picked up by police in Upper Darby three days after Lewis’ murder. During the arrest, investigators recovered two cell phones and a firearm. Ballistics from the victim’s apartment matched the recovered weapon. Additional warrants allowed searches of Robinson’s phones and cell site location data, which confirmed his presence near the crime scene. Recovered text messages also revealed that Robinson had tried to convince Lewis to retract her statement to police implicating the defendant in her stepfather’s murder.