By Allison Pries | apries@njadvancemedia.com |A Newark man is headed to prison for the rest of his life for killing the witness to a robbery he committed to keep the man from testifying against him. Rick King, 34, was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the killing of store clerk Amit Patel, 28, of Edison. Superior Court Judge Mark Ali also sentenced King on Friday to a consecutive 40-year sentence for the robbery. A jury in December found King guilty of murder, witness tampering, armed robbery, aggravated assault on a police officer and weapons offenses. Patel was the lone witness to a robbery King committed on Halloween 2013 at the same liquor store, owned by Patel’s father, and, authorities said, King killed him to keep him from implicating King in the robbery case.

Source: GNN Liberia February 10, 2018 13:52 UTC