AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A man police say was involved in two killings during a three-week span has been sentenced to 47 years in prison in one of the cases.
The Aurora Sentinel reports (http://goo.gl/49p88u ) 21-year-old Abdullah Ratcliff was sentenced Tuesday for the Jan. 11, 2014, death of 22-year-old Arturo Arguelles-Chavez. Ratcliff previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Prosecutors say Arguelles-Chavez was shot twice in the chest and robbed as he met Ratcliff and 25-year-old Del Dawan Bankett Jr. to buy an iPhone for $200. Bankett, the shooter, was sentenced to life in prison.
Police say that a few weeks after that killing, Ratcliff was part of a bungled robbery that left 19-year-old Korin Williams dead.
Ratcliff was charged with several crimes in that case, the most serious being attempted aggravated robbery. He is set to go on trial in May.
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Information from: The Aurora Sentinel, http://www.aurorasentinel.com/
