Family members of Irene Kunze, who was brutally murdered for a few dollars in her apartment last summer, didn't accept an apology from Corey Omar Posley-Wells, 28.
By ABBY SIMONS, Star Tribune
February 17, 2009
With mostly-stifled anger and a smattering of tears, those closest to the 90-year-old Hopkins woman brutally murdered for a few dollars in her Hopkins apartment last summer looked her killer in the eye one last time.
They didn't accept his apology.
"Never would I have thought that someone in my family would be a victim of such a cruel act," said James O'Shea, grandson of Irene Kunze, who was stabbed to death on July 7. "I always wondered if there was something different I could have done to change the outcome of that day. I'll probably always wonder... But two things are certain. You'll spend the majority of this existence in prison, and when death comes to you, you'll spend eternal existence in damnation."
It was a mixture of fond recollection of the loving, headstrong family matriarch and seething anger in the sendoff of Corey Omar Posley-Wells, 28, during his sentencing in Hennepin County District Court this afternoon. Following a guilty plea last month to first-degree burglary and first-degree murder while committing a robbery, Posley-Wells will spend 43 years in prison before he is eligible for release.
Afterward, St. Cyr said that though the sentencing has marked the beginning of a healing period, the words from her mother's killer were of little comfort.
"They mean nothing because he lied," she said. "The only thing he's sorry for is that he was caught."
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