SPOKANE, Wash. — A man convicted of killing a man in Tacoma and two separate assault charges in Spokane was sentenced to life in prison without parole this week under Washington state's "Three Strikes" law.

A Spokane County Superior Court judge sentenced 55-year-old Ian Irizarry to life in prison after he was found to be a persistent offender. State law requires courts to impose a mandatory life sentence without parole on individuals convicted of a third "most serious offense."

Irizarry’s first strike happened in 2003 in Tacoma, Washington.

Court documents show that he was camping under a bridge when he "bludgeoned another camper to death." Irizarry then told several others that he killed the man to take care of some problems. Irizarry was found guilty of 1st Degree Manslaughter and sen

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