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A man convicted in June of the 2023 killing Eunice Dwumfour, a pastor’s wife and Republican New Jersey councilwoman, was sentenced to life in prison on Monday.

New Jersey Superior Court Judge Joseph Paone imposed the maximum sentence on 31-year-old murder convict Rashid Ali Bynum at the end of an emotional hearing in the courtroom in New Brunswick, according to NJ.com . Bynum also received an additional 10-year sentence expected to run concurrently with the life sentence for two weapons charges.

Dwumfour was gunned down in her car just outside her townhome in Sayreville on Feb. 1, 2023, by Bynum. Her then 11-year-old daughter, who heard the shots that killed her, told the court that she still hasn’t recovered from the traumatic event.

“I still have not recovered,” she wr

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