HALTOM CITY, Texas - A 17-year-old who killed an Uber Eats driver in Haltom City accepted a plea deal in court on Thursday and apologized to the family of the victim.Police say Ryan Munsie Graham was stabbed to death by two teens who were attempting to rob her while she delivered food to an apartment complex on Northern Cross Boulevard in 2021.PREVIOUS COVERAGE: 2 juveniles arrested for the murder of Haltom City Uber Eats delivery driverThe teens, who were 14 at the time of the killing, were charged with capital murder.On Thursday, 17-year-old Zakariya De Wayne Marshall accepted a plea deal to downgrade his charge from capital murder to murder.Marshall was sentenced to 45 years behind bars.
He is eligible for parole after 22 years.After the plea deal was announced, Graham's family addressed Marshall directly on Zoom.
Family members say Graham had four different jobs at the time of her death."The night of January 27, 2021 was the worst day of my life," said Donna Munsie, Graham's relative who now looks after her children. "She was trying to make a better life for her family."Haltom City police arrested two juvenile suspects for murder of an Uber Eats delivery driver killed over the weekend.At the time of her death Graham's children were 11, 10 and 5 years old."How do you tell those children that their mommy is not coming home?" Munsie said. "Ryan is never going to get to watch these three kids grow up."Munsie held up a picture of Graham to show Marshall."I hope that he regrets what he did," Munsie said.Marshall responded with a tearful apology and says he tried to take his own life while in juvenile detention."I think about her a lot.