SEATTLE — A Seattle man has been sentenced to 42 years in prison for fatally shooting a 96-year-old man and bashing the man’s granddaughter with a crowbar.
The Seattle Times reported 24-year-old Shane Chamberlain was sentenced Friday after a jury convicted him of murder and attempted murder in December.
Prosecutors said Chamberlain and his wife had moved into the home of Philip Hamlin in a Seattle suburb in September 2013 after befriending his granddaughter, Bethany Hamlin.
The couple was there to help care for the elder Hamlin, a pioneer in the cable-television industry.
Chamberlain attacked Bethany Hamlin in January 2014 as she vacuumed at the house. She defended herself with a metal chair and ran to a neighbor’s house.
Prosecutors say Chamberlain used Philip Hamlin’s revolver to kill him, then called 911, saying “I broke.”
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