‘Pure evil’ killer gets 15 yrs.
A COLD-HEARTED Brooklyn man who murdered his sister and shot his niece over suspicion that he was getting kicked out of the house where they all lived was slammed with 15 years in prison Thursday.
“I begged for my life and he still shot me and my mother,” cried Crystal Birk outside court after her uncle 73-year-old William Thurmond was sentenced.
Thurmond shot Carol Lovell, 63, in the chest and grazed Birk’s forehead “for no reason” in February 2013, said Birk.
“My mother did nothing to him, he knew what he was doing. He was waiting for my daughter to go to school before he shot her,” said Birk, as she wiped away tears.
The elderly man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.
Lovell and Thurmond received joint ownership of their mother’s E. 25th St. home after she died, but as the years went by, the older sibling felt he was being mistreated and getting “squeezed out” when he moved into the basement.
“I have nothing to say,” said an unapologetic Thurmond to Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Neil Firetog.
Birk, 39, burst into tears in the back of the courtroom as Thurmond’s lawyer requested allowing his client to get his “clothes, belongings and his children’s things” out of the East Flatbush house.
“He’s pure evil,” she said.