A Las Vegas jury has returned a guilty verdict and a life without parole sentence for a man who committed a fatal stabbing in 2015.

Sergey Mkhitaryan, 43, was found guilty of first-degree murder with a deadly weapon, attempted murder and battery resulting in substantial bodily harm.

Jurors returned the verdict Nov. 12 after deliberating for less than two hours and sentenced him to life without parole in prison the next day, court records show.

Prosecutors said that Mkhitaryan killed Avetis Shilgevorkyan and tried to kill Aram Keropyan outside the Shish Kabob House, 6620 W. Flamingo Road, after eating dinner with the men in August 2015. Mkhitaryan was arrested about three months later in Panama.

Mkhitaryan and Shilgevorkyan owned rival collision repair businesses and Mkhitaryan had trie

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