Texas man gets life in prison for killing 4 in Md.

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UPPER MARLBORO, Md. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Texas man will spend the rest of his life in prison after being convicted of fatally shooting four people, including two toddlers, in Maryland.

A Prince George’s County jury convicted 47-year-old Darrell Lynn Bellard of Dickinson, Texas, in April on four counts of first-degree murder in the 2010 slayings. He was sentenced on Friday to multiple life and life without parole sentences plus 80 years.

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