Timothy Mwandi Church (center) receives a 40-year prison sentence Monday in Roanoke Circuit Court with defense attorney Patrick Kenney beside him. Church in September was convicted of first-degree murder, wounding and attempted robbery after a 2018 attack at the Starlite Motel on Melrose Avenue.
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Timothy Mwandi Church places his hands on a copy of The Good News Bible at his July 2020 sentencing in Roanoke Circuit Court with his then-lawyer, Patrick Kenney, standing beside him.
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Roanoke Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Andrew Stephens calls Timothy Church's 2018 attack on the owners of Melrose Avenue's Starlite Motel "as brutal a crime as this court will ever see."
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Friends and family members of Starlite Motel manager Ishvarlal Patel, who was slain in the 2018 attack, listen as Church is sentenced. Patel’s wife, Jyotsana Patel (second from right in a gray sweater) was also injured in the incident.
A shocking and fatal baseball bat attack from 2018 — which Roanoke prosecutors called “as brutal a crime as this court will ever see” — came to a resolution this week with the culprit receiving four decades in prison.
Photos: Surviving family describes devastation left in wake of fatal bat attack at Roanoke motel
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Timothy Mwandi Church places his hands on a copy of The Good News Bible at his July 2020 sentencing in Roanoke Circuit Court with his then-lawyer, Patrick Kenney, standing beside him.
The Roanoke Times, File 2020
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Timothy Mwandi Church (center) receives a 40-year prison sentence Monday in Roanoke Circuit Court with defense attorney Patrick Kenney beside him. Church in September was convicted of first-degree murder, wounding and attempted robbery after a 2018 attack at the Starlite Motel on Melrose Avenue.
NEIL HARVEY | The Roanoke Times
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Friends and family members of Starlite Motel manager Ishvarlal Patel, who was slain in the 2018 attack, listen as Church is sentenced. Patel’s wife, Jyotsana Patel (second from right in a gray sweater) was also injured in the incident.
NEIL HARVEY | The Roanoke Times
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Roanoke Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Andrew Stephens calls Timothy Church's 2018 attack on the owners of Melrose Avenue's Starlite Motel "as brutal a crime as this court will ever see."
A Roanoke man has been charged with murder after a man died and two women were beaten with a baseball bat at the Starlite Motel on Tuesday, Ro…
Timothy Mwandi Church (center) receives a 40-year prison sentence Monday in Roanoke Circuit Court with defense attorney Patrick Kenney beside him. Church in September was convicted of first-degree murder, wounding and attempted robbery after a 2018 attack at the Starlite Motel on Melrose Avenue.
Timothy Mwandi Church places his hands on a copy of The Good News Bible at his July 2020 sentencing in Roanoke Circuit Court with his then-lawyer, Patrick Kenney, standing beside him.
Roanoke Assistant Commonwealth's Attorney Andrew Stephens calls Timothy Church's 2018 attack on the owners of Melrose Avenue's Starlite Motel "as brutal a crime as this court will ever see."
Friends and family members of Starlite Motel manager Ishvarlal Patel, who was slain in the 2018 attack, listen as Church is sentenced. Patel’s wife, Jyotsana Patel (second from right in a gray sweater) was also injured in the incident.
