Montco man gets life in prison for Craigslist murder

Wednesday, August 5, 2015
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A man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of a New Jersey man who was killed while responding to a Craigslist ad.

PHILADELPHIA -- A man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murder of a New Jersey man who was killed while responding to a Craigslist ad.

A jury in Philadelphia has convicted 25-year-old Thomas Coffee of Willow Grove of first degree murder.

Coffee had been charged with fatally shooting a man in June of 2013 who had answered an ad on Craigslist for an all-terrain vehicle.

The victim was 27-year-old Daniel Cook of Williamstown, New Jersey.

Coffee was sentenced to a mandatory life term plus 50 to 100 years for three other armed robberies.