LANCASTER – A judge ruled that the cases of a Lancaster city teenager charged with murdering an East Drumore Township man and with firing a gun in a city shootout will remain in the adult criminal system following a hearing. The judge denied 18-year-old Alexander Whisman’s petition to be decertified to the juvenile system. The ruling means both of Whisman’s criminal cases will remain in the adult criminal system. Though Whisman is now 18, he was a minor at the time of the offenses. Whisman, along with two co-defendants, are accused of kidnapping and murdering his cousin, 25-year-old Matthew Whisman in April 2024. The three co-defendants are accused of assaulting Matthew Whisman inside a residence in the 1100 block of Lancaster Pike in East Drumore Township, then forcing him into a vehicle and injecting him with a lethal dose of fentanyl. Matthew Whisman’s body was thrown off a bridge and his body was later recovered in Cecil County, MD in August 2024.
ALEXANDER WHISMAN