Son gets 30 years for killing ex-federal prosecutor with ax

CHESTERFIELD, Va. (AP) — The son of a former federal prosecutor has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his father with an ax in Virginia.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that a judge on Friday sentenced 32-year-old Frank Altimari after concluding his “detailed delusions that his father wanted a mercy killing by an ax is not reliably substantiated by the evidence.” Altimari had pleaded no contest to second-degree murder and malicious wounding in the November 20