Miami teen sentenced to 17 years for fatally stabbing boyfriend

A teen who pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing her boyfriend during an argument in Miami in 2024 was sentenced to 17 years in prison on Tuesday.

Jahara Malik, 18, was charged with manslaughter for stabbing and killing her boyfriend, 17-year-old Yahkeim Lollar, after the two got into an argument on Dec. 20, 2024.

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“You are a murderer. You are a demon seed that your parents brought into this world to bring suffering on everybody else. Shame on them,” Lollar’s aunt, Zeldrina Beecham, said Tuesday during the sentencing hearing.

Malik was 17 at the time of the stabbing and was charged as an adult. She pleaded guilty back in March without a plea deal and let a judge decide her fate.

“Although I do believe that you are remorseful, I do not believe that this was an isolated incident of aggression towards the victim based on the evidence that was presented here in court And I also do not believe that this was done in an unsophisticated manner,” the judge said upon sentencing.

Lollar’s family has been vocal since the beginning and held protests outside the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office, demanding accountability. Their calls for justice eventually led prosecutors to file charges against Malik more than a month after the killing.

The victim’s family previously said they wanted the maximum sentence, which is 30 years in prison.

“I want the max,” Nathalie Jean, Lollar’s mother, said in March. “That is what I want. A life for a life. She took my son’s life for no reason. She took my son’s life because he was honest [with] her that he didn’t want to be with her. And she not realizing her actions, her behavior and her entitlement is the reason why he didn’t want to be with her.”

Lollar, also known to family and friends as “Keimo,” died after being stabbed in the garage of their apartment building near Northwest 6th Court and 61st Street.

A junior at Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Lollar was described as being devoted to his family. He loved playing football and video games and dreamed of a career in finance, his mother said.