Inside a packed courtroom on the top floor of the Hillsborough County Courthouse, about 20 members of Savannah Mathis’ family waited quietly. They donned shirts bearing the 21-year-old nursing student’s smiling face and carried life-size cardboard cutouts of her. Earlier this month, a jury found Vakarvery Scott guilty of first-degree murder in Mathis’ slaying. The verdict carries a mandatory .
Vakarvery Scott, the man convicted of shooting and killing 21-year-old Savannah Mathis, was sentenced to life in prison in a Tampa courtroom on Thursday.