A Maine man who hit his girlfriend with his car in Acadia National Park and then fled to Mexico was sentenced Thursday to 48 years in prison for murder.
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Raymond Lester, 37, of Portland, was convicted in November of killing his girlfriend, Nicole Mokeme, in a hit-and-run accident at the Schoodic Institute in Winter Harbor.
Acadia National Park sign in Bar Harbor, Maine. ((Photo credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images))
The victim was the creative director of Rise and Shine Youth Retreat, which provides retreats and programs for Black children and adults. She was also one of the organizers of the 2022 Black She Excellence She Retreat, which was in progress at the time of her passing.
According to court documents, Mokeme was last seen near a bonfire late during an event in June 2022, and her body was found the next day.
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Lester was nowhere to be found. But license plate readers caught his BMW driving through several states, including Georgia and Texas, days after the killing. Mexican authorities arrested him without incident in Cancun about a month later.
