(KNZA)--Life in prison.
That's the sentence handed down Tuesday, in Virginia, for Vantino Robinson, the Chesapeake, Virginia man found guilty for killing his next door neighbor, a former local Kansas resident.
Mystery continues to surround the case, as, in the words of “The Virginian-Pilot,”
prosecutors still can't say what motive lies behind last year's stabbing death of former Robinson resident Jared Geiger.
It's known that the killer, convicted of first-degree murder and armed burglary in July, broke down Geiger's door with a sledgehammer and stabbed him 26 times; and, while Robinson told police his apartment complex neighbor wasn't a, quote “random picking,” clarifying only with the vague statement that Geiger, quote “was impersonating,” the killer never further explained those words to authorities, leaving the reasoning behind Geiger's April 2011 murder unknown.
Prosecutors have described the crime as “a horrendous and senseless act of violence,” while the Circuit Court Judge has said the case “makes no sense.”
Geiger's brother, Joel, found Jared dead when he arrived to pick him up for work the morning after the crime occurred.
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