Man gets 25 years to life for stabbing at Walmart parking lot in Albion

Posted at: 10/30/2012 4:22 PM
By: Associated Press | WHEC.com

A 24-year-old man has been sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing a woman during a carjacking attempt in the parking lot of Wal-Mart last year.
    
Luis Rodriguez-Flamenco pleaded guilty in July to second-degree murder for killing 45-year-old Kathleen Byham of Albion. The illegal immigrant from Honduras stabbed Byham multiple times while grabbing for her car keys on a Sunday afternoon.  Two accomplices were turned over to immigration officials without being indicted.
    
Rodriguez-Flamenco showed no remorse during Monday's sentencing in Orleans County Court and offered no apologies when asked whether he wanted to speak.
    
Three months before she was killed, Byham received a doctorate in philosophy from the online Arts Institute of San Francisco.

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