A 58-year-old man in Virginia who was "obsessed" with cable news will spend the remainder of his days behind bars for following and shooting two Latino men because he was "p—ed" about illegal immigration.

U.S. District Judge Roderick C. Young on Thursday ordered Douglas Wayne Cornett to serve a sentence of life in federal prison after he pleaded guilty to two federal hate crime charges, each involving an attempt to kill, and to discharging a firearm during a federal crime of violence.

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia announced the sentence Friday.

As Law&Crime previously reported , Cornett on the evening of Feb. 28, 2024, left his home in Spotsylvania armed with a 9 mm handgun equipped with a 17-shot magazine. At about 9 p.m., Cornett encountered a white b

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