A Washington State inmate has been sentenced to nearly 25 additional years in prison for killing his cellmate, according to local station KHQ.
Shane, 26, received the sentence last week for the June 2020 death of 70 year old Robert. Robert was serving a 43 year sentence for child sex crimes.
Reports said Shane told KHQ that Robert kept taunting him with details about an assault on Shane’s sister years earlier. “It was building up,” Shane told the station, adding that he was not in a stable place at the time.
Shane also told KHQ that corrections rules were supposed to prevent the two men from being housed together. After an internal review, the Washington Department of Corrections told the station that screeners did not know the two were connected when they were placed in the same cell.
Court documents state that Shane struck Robert in the face at least 14 times and stepped on his head at least four times before walking away.
In a statement released through his attorney, Shane apologized to Robert’s family, saying he could not imagine what it would be like to lose a loved one this way and that he hoped they could heal.
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