Woman to be sentenced in Wichita State student’s killing

A woman charged in the Aug. 8 fatal shooting of a Wichita State University international student has pleaded guilty in the case.

Eboni Fingal of Wichita is scheduled for sentencing April 29 on counts of involuntary manslaughter and robbery, according to Sedgwick County District Court records. Before her plea, which she entered March 11, she had been scheduled for a March 21 jury trial.

Fingal, 20, and Isaiah Copridge, 23, were arrested and charged with killing 23-year-old Rayan Ibrahim Baba in the parking lot of Fairmount Towers student dormitory, 2221 N. Hillside. Authorities have said Baba contacted Fingal for sexual services she had advertised online shortly before the shooting. Authorities used cellphone tracking technology to place the pair at the scene.

Baba was an undergraduate student from Saudi Arabia and was preparing to move out of the dorm when he was shot.

A passerby saw him lying in the parking lot shortly before 6:30 a.m. Aug. 8 and called 911. He died about 30 minutes later.

Attorneys involved in Fingal’s case plan to ask a judge to put her on probation when she is sentenced because she is young, has a newborn child and played a lesser role in the killing than Copridge, according to her plea agreement. She had agreed to testify against Copridge, the document says, but his case never went to trial because he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and aggravated robbery.

Copridge is serving more than 21 years in prison.

Baba’s was the first homicide on WSU’s campus in more than 20 years.

This story was originally published March 18, 2016 at 5:11 PM with the headline "Woman to be sentenced in Wichita State student’s killing."