SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - A North Port man is set to spend the rest of his life behind bars after a Sarasota County jury handed down a unanimous guilty verdict Friday.

ABC7 first reported on the case of Dima Tower just hours after first responders arrived at his home to find a bloodbath. A trail of blood led from bedroom to living room, from living room to driveway, ultimately all the way down the driveway to a neighbor’s house.

Dima Tower wasn’t born with that name--he had been born in Ukraine, but his mother died when he was young. He swore in court that he actually didn’t know how young he was when she passed--somewhere around the age of 6.

That’s when Dima moved in first with his brother, then with an uncle. None of that lasted, though--after a few months, he hit the foster care sys

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