HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) A Hartford man has been sentenced to 37 years in prison for two killings in 2006 and 2009 that had been featured on ``cold case playing cards'' that authorities hand out in an effort to get tips on unsolved cases.
Twenty-eight-year-old Hector Torres was sentenced Thursday in Hartford Superior Court.
He pleaded guilty to fatally shooting 20-year-old Derrick Comrie outside of Bulkeley High School in Hartford on Jan. 10, 2006, and killing 28-year-old Luis ``Berto'' Benitez, who was found wounded outside a convenience store in Hartford on Dec. 7, 2009, and died three months later.
Torres was arrested in Comrie's death after authorities got a tip through the cold case playing cards. He was charged in Benitez's killing during a grand jury investigation into organized crime activities.
