Alicia Andrews gets 15 years for Julio Foolio manslaughter killing

Julio Foolio had gone to Tampa to celebrate his 26th birthday, posting on Instagram before the night turned into a fatal ambush outside a hotel cluster near the University of South Florida. By the time the gunfire ended on McKinley Drive, Charles Andrew Jones II was dead, three other people were wounded, and Alicia Andrews was later left to answer for a role prosecutors said helped set the killing in motion.

Andrews was sentenced on May 22, 2026, to 15 years in Florida state prison, the maximum allowed for manslaughter, a second-degree felony punishable by up to 15 years under Florida law. Judge Kimberly Fernandez had already delayed sentencing after Andrews filed post-trial motions, but the judge denied her bid to overturn the verdict or win a new trial before handing down the prison term. Andrews had been convicted of manslaughter on October 31, 2025, and acquitted of conspiracy to commit murder.

The sentence matters because it sketches the state’s theory of the case. Prosecutors said Andrews used her cellphone and car to help track Jones as he moved between Tampa nightclubs, turning social-media posts and nightlife stops into a trail that led the group to him. Police said the people involved traveled in two vehicles from Jacksonville to Tampa to commit murder, and prosecutors argued the shooters had modified their rifles to avoid leaving shell casings at the scene.

Andrews was tried separately from the four other defendants, Isaiah Chance, Sean Gathright, Rashad Murphy and Davion Murphy. Those four were convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder, and jurors recommended life in prison without parole for each of them on May 15, 2026. Together, the verdicts have now pinned direct responsibility on five people in a case that has drawn intense attention in Florida’s drill-rap and gang violence crosscurrents.

At sentencing, Jones’s mother, Sandrikas Mays, gave the case its most devastating frame. She told the court her son was “hunted” and “not disposable,” a reminder that the courtroom had become the last place to measure the damage of a birthday trip that ended in blood. Andrews is now the first of the five defendants to be sentenced, but the full story of the Tampa ambush still sits inside the remaining convictions and the violence that brought Charles Andrew Jones II there in the first place.