A western Michigan man who already was imprisoned for killing his half brother has been sentenced to life in prison for a second slaying.
Twenty-three-year-old Royale Runyon was given the most-recent punishment Thursday in Kent County Circuit Court. Runyon was charged last year with murder in the December 2012 shooting death of a 20-year-old woman. He was convicted of first-degree murder in July.
Runyon, in a statement, maintained his innocence. He was 17 at the time of the killings.
Runyon already was serving a sentence of at least 30 years in prison for second-degree murder in the slaying of his half brother, 20-year-old Mahdi Hayes, five days after the woman was killed.
The woman was Hayes' former girlfriend and police later connected him to her shooting death.
