COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—A Colorado Springs teenager has received a life sentence for the killing of a disabled man in what a judge called “murder for sport.”
Nineteen-year-old Kyle Sebastian Stott was convicted Friday of the January 2009 murder of Jason Holley, a 22-year-old developmentally disabled man whose body was found near a hiking trail west of Colorado Springs.
District Judge Deborah Grohs sentenced Stott to life in prison without parole. Grohs described the slaying as “murder for sport” and told Stott he committed the crime for nothing more than “bragging rights.”
Stott’s brother-in-law, Derek Lee Hernandez, also faces charges in the death. Hernandez is scheduled to face trial in August.
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Information from: The Gazette,
