SALT LAKE CITY — After a more than decade-long wait, the man who killed three people in Salt Lake City in 2015 has been sentenced for the triple-murder.

Alexander Hung Tran was sentenced on Friday to three life sentences without the possibility of parole in the murders of 50-year-old Heike Poike, her 2-month-old granddaughter Lyrik Poike, and 28-year-old Dakota Smith, who were found dead inside a house in the Rose Park neighborhood of Salt Lake City.

Attorneys said that Smith was a friend of the Poike family.

Poike was renting the upstairs portion of the residence from Tran, who lived in the basement and described the home as his mom's house.

Prosecutors said Smith, a family friend, went to the house to check on things after Poike didn't pick up her 8-year-old grandson from school.

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