CHICAGO (AP) — A formerly homeless man has been sentenced to 54 years in prison for the 2010 slaying of a 94-year-old Chicago retiree who had once taken him in.
The Chicago Tribune reports that Cook County Judge Stanley Sacks ordered 46-year-old Gilbert Feliciano to serve the prison sentence for home invasion, robbery and the murder of Stanley Letkiewicz as well as home invasion and robbery.
Letkiewicz had noticed Feliciano begging for money outside of a store and decided to allow him to stay at his home.
Authorities say Letkiewicz ended the living arrangement in September 2010 after Feliciano punched him and took his wallet.
About a month later, a neighbor found Letkiewicz badly beaten in his home.
Letkiewicz was taken to the hospital, where he told authorities who his attacker was before he died more than a month later.
