A mother's agony explodes as killer of son sentenced (Washington)
A mother's agony explodes as killer of son sentenced
By Natalie Singer
Seattle Times staff writer
A mother's anguished roar pierced the silence of a King County courtroom Friday as she confronted the man who killed and mutilated her 25-year-old son, Microsoft program manager David Barzilai.
"Just as he butchered David's body, he emotionally butchered our family," Linda Barzilai shouted, pointing to Ronald Lakey, who was awaiting sentencing in a red jail jumpsuit, surrounded by six sheriff's deputies.
"There are no words to express my grief and pain."
Minutes later, Superior Court Judge Douglass North delivered a sentence that left the family and friends of Barzilai, who was stabbed more than 200 times in his Belltown apartment in 2002, heartbroken all over again.
Lakey, who claimed a methamphetamine-induced delirium caused him to kill Barzilai, was sentenced to 17 years in prison for the crime of first-degree manslaughter with the aggravated circumstance of deliberate cruelty.
The prosecution had asked the judge for a sentence of 40 years.
"This sentence does not reflect the monstrous brutality of this heinous crime that cost David his life," the victim's family said later in a statement. "We are devastated ... and fear for the people of Washington when this criminal is released."
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posted by Kim | 9:24 PM
1 Comments:
I was a juror in favor of second degree murder in the Barsali killing, I am having nightmares about the case but cannot begin to understand the suffering of his family this whole thing is so wrong I feel so sad for everyone hit buy this, this is all I can say but now I feel effected not in the same way but more as an outsider that was forced to be an insider. (thats the only way I can express it) I wish I could say sorry to the Barsali famaly, I wish I could restore there joy, there happyness or at least the idea that some of us in this world are good poeple. Grant Fryer juror #2
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