A 71-year-old man was sentenced today to two terms of life in state prison without the possibility of parole for stabbing his wife at their North Hills home and then shooting his son because he was gay, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced. Photo: iStock/JSmith
SAN FERNANDO — A 71-year-old man was sentenced today to two terms of life in state prison without the possibility of parole for stabbing his wife at their North Hills home and then shooting his son because he was gay, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said in a press statement.
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On September 28, a jury at the San Fernando Superior Courthouse found Shehadeh Khalil Issa guilty of two counts of willful, deliberate and premeditated murder with a special circumstance allegation of multiple murders.
The jury also found true a hate crime allegation and allegations of use of a knife and a shotgun as deadly weapons.
