The trial began Monday for Julie Jean and Zakkee Steven Alhakim who face first-degree murder charges in the ambush killing of Rachel King as she sat in her car outside a Cheltenham Township Dunkin' on April 11, 2023.
On April 26, 2023, Zakkee Steven Alhakim, 34, and Julie Jean, 35, were both charged in the deadly shooting of Rachel King, 35, in front of her 11-year-old son at a Dunkin' drive-thru in Cheltenham Township, Montgomery County, back on April 11, 2023.Sign up for NBC Philadelphia newsletters. Family members said King was taking her son to a violin lesson before school. They stopped at the drive-thru of a Cheltenham Township Dunkin' along the way.
Alhakim is a cousin of the father of three of Jean's children. In February, 2023, cellphone records show that Jean added Alhakim's phone number under"Zah." Further investigation showed Jean and Alhakim had purchased the Mercury Sable used as the getaway car in Philadelphia on March 30, 2023, under Jean's name, authorities said. A criminal complaint said the car was purchased for $1,500.A criminal complaint stated that Alhakim told investigators he was homeless for several months before the killing and selling drugs for money.
Jean was arrested and later arraigned on first-degree murder and related counts and held without bail, according to court records.“The saddest part about this is biological father was supposed to take him to violin that morning and every Tuesday morning,” King III said. “You can’t help but think that if that was the case, none of this would’ve happened.”