Andre Davids
has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for the gruesome killing of his
boyfriend, an emergency room doctor named Kurtland Ma.
Ma was just 34 when he was stabbed in the couple’s West Hollywood
apartment 40 times by Davids who thought the couple were about to break
up.
Prosecutors said Davids stuffed some of Ma’s body organs into the victim’s mouth during the March 2014 killing.
‘When anyone, including your family, looks at you the first thing they will see is a murderer,’ the victim’s brother, Wayland Ma, said in Los Angeles Superior Court before the sentence was handed down.
The 12 year sentence was the most Davids could receive because the jury had reduced the charge against him to manslaughter instead of second-degree murder which could have meant a life sentence.
Davids’ attorneys called it a crime of passion and said their client was under the influence of the prescription drugs Ambien and Halcion. He attempted to take an overdose of pills and was hiding in the bathroom when police arrived.
Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee called it “absolutely one of the most gruesome crime scenes that I or the homicide detectives have ever seen.”
Prosecutors said Davids stuffed some of Ma’s body organs into the victim’s mouth during the March 2014 killing.
‘When anyone, including your family, looks at you the first thing they will see is a murderer,’ the victim’s brother, Wayland Ma, said in Los Angeles Superior Court before the sentence was handed down.
The 12 year sentence was the most Davids could receive because the jury had reduced the charge against him to manslaughter instead of second-degree murder which could have meant a life sentence.
Davids’ attorneys called it a crime of passion and said their client was under the influence of the prescription drugs Ambien and Halcion. He attempted to take an overdose of pills and was hiding in the bathroom when police arrived.
Deputy District Attorney Michele Hanisee called it “absolutely one of the most gruesome crime scenes that I or the homicide detectives have ever seen.”
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