11/29/08 06:22 AM
MANHATTAN
‘Killing machine’ sentenced to life
NEW YORK (AP) — A man prosecutors called a “killing machine” when he was on trial for six murders was sentenced Friday to life behind bars by a judge who said he could not recall “immorality in such epic proportions.”
Justice Daniel FitzGerald sentenced Fausto Gonzalez, 37, who was convicted earlier this month in Manhattan’s state Supreme Court of killing six men in the 1990s. Prosecutors say he killed one man just so he could steal his motorcycle and then drove over the victim as he sped away.
Assistant District Attorney Robert Walker said before the sentencing that Gonzalez was a “remorseless,” “merciless” and “unrepentant” assassin who killed for revenge, killed for money, and sometimes “for no reason at all.”
