A 24-year-old man in Florida will spend the rest of his days behind bars for sexually assaulting and killing his 33-year-old neighbor, a friend of the family whom he stabbed to death before the then-16-year-old killer took the bus to high school and went to class as usual.

Fifth Judicial Circuit Judge Mary P. Hatcher ordered Tyler Ryan Hirsch to serve life in a state correctional facility for the 2018 slaying of Melody Victoria Bennett, authorities announced.

The sentence came down after Hirsch in March entered an open plea — essentially a guilty plea without an agreement as to the sentence — resulting in him being convicted on one count each of first-degree murder, attempted sexual battery while armed, and burglary of a dwelling while armed, as well as three counts of battery on a law e

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