Utah man sentenced to prison for ‘senseless’ Easter Sunday shooting death and robbery

The last 20 seconds of Matthew Holt’s life were spent in fear.For those last few seconds, as he struggled with the man who would shoot and kill him in a Easter Sunday robbery near the Jordan River Parkway, he lived in terror.It doesn’t seem like a long time, 3rd District Court Judge James Blanch said. But it was — and to illustrate that, Blanch let 20 seconds of silence pass in his courtroom Tuesday before sentencing Holt’s killer, 36-year-old Jeffery Ray Shepherd, to spe