Michael Keylon Miller-Jimerson, 26, was sentenced on 6 January 2026 in Pierce County Superior Court to 15 years in prison for second-degree murder in the 2022 robbery of the World of Weed dispensary in Tacoma.[1] He had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for directing teenagers to rob the dispensary, where an employee was shot and killed.[1]

During the 19 March 2022 armed takeover of the shop at 3202 E. Portland Ave., a 15-year-old boy, Marshon Jones, fatally shot 29-year-old employee Jordan Brown while Jones and Montrell Hatfield robbed the store.[1] A third teenager stood lookout while Miller-Jimerson waited in a car outside in case his accomplices needed a backup getaway driver.[1] The teens had escaped house arrest in King County days earlier by disabling their ankle monitors.[1]

Judge Susan Adams imposed an agreed recommendation from prosecutors and the defense that was below Miller-Jimerson’s standard sentencing range of about 21 to 30 years.[1] Deputy prosecuting attorney Sunni Ko said the state recommended the shorter term because it would need the testimony of Jones and Hatfield, who refused to cooperate, to prove Miller-Jimerson acted as an accomplice.[1] Ko said the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Western Washington arranged a global disposition under which the federal sentence would run concurrently with the state term.[1]

Jones and Hatfield pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and multiple counts of first-degree robbery in February 2024 and were each sentenced to 25 years in state custody.[1] Dennis Brown, the victim’s father, said it mattered that the adult involved in his son’s murder was held accountable.[1] Dennis Brown said: None of it will bring Jordan back.[1]