Sylvester Ofori, a Ghanaian pastor in the United States of America who shot and killed his wife Barbara Tommey in 2020, has been sentenced to life in prison.
Ofori was sentenced after a jury trial which began on Monday, July 22nd on charges of first-degree murder.
Witnesses told detectives that Ofori held a gun and was following his wife as she walked toward the credit union.
Ofori then shot her once when she knocked on the doors to get someone to let her in, before collapsing a few feet away from her husband.
Ofori reported then walked over to her and shot her a few more times before walking back to his rented Dodge Journey and drove away “as though nothing happened.”
Tommey was pronounced dead at Orlando Regional Medical Center later that morning.
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A fight between the estranged pair just a day earlier which was captured by Tommey’s sister, recorded a scene in which he promised to take her life, detectives confirmed.
“Can I promise you something? If I don’t k*ll your sister, then I am fake,” Ofori told his brother-in-law in a video posted on Facebook.
Police said the couple had been estranged and had not been living together for about three months before the murder
