The man had been hired to clean the home of 83-year-old William Moore, and that’s when he came up with a plot to steal Moore’s collection of firearms.
NORFOLK, Va. — A Norfolk man was sentenced to 36 years in prison Friday for murdering a retired city police sergeant during the armed burglary of his home in 2022.
The sentencing for 21-year-old Xavier Hudspeth comes after he was convicted on various charges in September: Second-degree murder, the use of a firearm in the commission of murder, the use of a firearm in the commission of aggravated malicious wounding, armed statutory burglary, conspiring to commit armed statutory burglary, and conspiring to commit the larceny of firearms.
“This is a heavy sentence, but it is absolutely deserved,” Norfolk Commonwealth’s Attorney Ramin Fatehiwrote in a news release. “Mr. Hudspeth cased the victims’ house and put up Mr. Brown to commit this crime to keep his own hands …