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Bland Gets Two Life Sentences for 2023 Murders
Bland admitted to the killings and avoided the death penalty after a plea deal that added federal gun and drug charges, prosecutors said.
- On Monday, Senior U.S. District Judge William K. Sessions III sentenced Theodore Bland to consecutive life terms for the 2023 murders of Jahim Solomon and Eric White in Lowell, Vermont.
- Bland murdered the victims over a drug debt on October 12, 2023, shooting White in his sleep and taunting Solomon as he lay dying, according to Assistant U.S. Attorney Jason Turner.
- Solomon's mother, Susan Taliafero, called Bland a "monster," while White's mother, Belinda Vargas, said she would never receive another hug from her son in her lifetime.
- The court ordered Bland to pay $12,505 in restitution to the Vermont Center for Crime Victim Services and $700 in court costs alongside the consecutive life sentences.
- Vermont State Police Criminal Division Commander Major Ashley Barnes noted the crime's callousness, stating it "left the families of two young men with a grief that will never end.
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