Anthony Kelly, who earlier this year was convicted of raping a grandmother and killing a 9-year-old girl during a 2002 crime spree that ran across the Washington region, was sentenced Monday to three life sentences by a Montgomery County judge.
The sentence guarantees he “will die in jail, where he belongs,” Montgomery County States Attorney John McCarthy said.
Earlier this year, three juries convicted Kelly, 44, of two murders and two rapes stemming from his 2002 spree after he dismissed public defenders and acted as his own attorney. Kelly had been in a mental hospital after he was deemed mentally incompetent to stand trial, but earlier this year his treatment led Circuit Court Judge Durke Thompson to rule him ready for trial.
He is also accused of killing a woman in the District of Columbia in 2002, and may be tried on that charge.
