Arizona man gets life prison term for fatal 2017 stabbing
James Murray Reaves (file) (Pima County Attorney's Office)
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) - A Tucson man has been sentenced to life in prison in a fatal stabbing in 2017 and the assault of his ex-girlfriend.
Pima County prosecutors say 35-year-old James Murray Reaves was sentenced Thursday.
He was convicted in August of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of 38-year-old Damion Philipps and the wounding of his ex-girlfriend at a home outside Tucson.
Reaves also was found guilty of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and first-degree burglary.
In addition to the life sentence, Reaves was given 10 ½ years in prison for first-degree burglary and 7 ½ years for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.
The burglary and assault charges will run concurrently, but consecutively to Reaves’ natural life in prison sentence.