Sisters' killer gets the chance they never did

For Rohan Ranger, there should be no mercy, no forgiveness and no redemption. But there will be freedom.

- ROSIE DIMANNO

Marsha Ottey, 19, left, and sister, Tami, 16 were killed by Marsha’s ex-boyfriend, Rohan Ranger, in 1995. Ranger has been granted full parole after 28 years in jail for the murders. He now has a life ahead of him, something he took from the Ottey sisters, Rosie DiManno writes.

Twenty-eight years after walking into a jail cell, he’s walking out for good — granted full parole.

This is the man who slaughtered the Ottey sisters — Marsha, 19, and Tami, 16. He’s never admitted he was the killer and put all the blame on a cousin whom Ranger claimed he’d recruited to do nothing more than put the fear of God into his former girlfriend, Marsha. Tami was their means of getting into the Ottey Scarborough home. She was intercepted on her way to work and forced to give Rohan and Adrian Kinkead entry.

They were frenzied murders, the explosive rage of an ex-boyfriend who’d stalked, tormented and threatened Marsha. The gifted student-athlete was two days away from departing for Arkansas State University on a track scholarship. Tami was in high school. Ranger insisted he wanted only to scare Marsha so she wouldn’t move to the U.S.

When Marsha told Ranger she was leaving to fulfil her dreams — the couple had broken up four months earlier — he put a gun to her head and vowed he’d kill her if she tried.

He’d written in Marsha’s yearbook: “If I can’t have you, no one will.”