A man who was convicted of murdering his girlfriend — a prominent banking executive found dead inside her Reseda home — was sentenced on Friday, Oct. 10, to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Anthony Duwayne Turner, now 57 and himself a former banking executive, was found guilty Aug. 12 of first-degree murder, burglary and forcible rape stemming from the August 2021 killing of Michelle Annette Avan, a senior vice president for Bank of America, just over four years ago. She had two children and one grandchild.

The victim’s family members joined her friends in calling on Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Larry Paul Fidler to impose the maximum sentence on Turner, who did not speak during the sentencing hearing.

The victim’s daughter, Nyah, called her mother a woman of

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