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The sentencing brings Alina’s family closure one year after her father found her dead in a pool of her own blood at her home in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh on Oct. 8, 2017.
At a Wednesday press conference, Alina’s family said her memory lives on.
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“You didn’t want anyone else to have her. From this, you did the most selfish thing to get what you truly wanted,” Paige O’Neil, Alina’s best friend, said in court. “I just want you to know that even though you took my very best friend away from me, you will never kill her soul. Her memory is always here.”
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When her body was found, it had “multiple chop andstab wounds to the head and face,” according to thePost-Gazette.
source: people.com
