An Arizona man who shot and killed his girlfriend and her 4-year-old daughter in front of the 1-year-old son they shared was sentenced to life in prison for the crime.

Brandon Andres Bautista Torres, 30, pleaded guilty to one charge of first-degree premeditated murder and one count of reckless manslaughter last month almost six years after he killed 23-year-old Selina Toyos and her daughter, Aleena Bermudez, who died just days before her fifth birthday. On Tuesday, a judge ordered Torres to spend the rest of his natural life behind bars as punishment for the crime, which the Maricopa County District Attorney called “horrific and cowardly.”

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