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When Savian Kirton’s girlfriend returned to her Mount Vernon apartment and told him a man had just made sexual advances at her at the corner grocery store, it didn t take long for Kirton to react.
Within three minutes he was outside the store, stabbing Jermial Rose so forcefully in the neck that he killed him almost instantly.
Later that night, he was heard on police-car video mumbling that he was going to get 10 years.
For that split-second rage two years ago Kirton got much more. He was sentenced Monday to 18 years to life in prison, although the judge cited his intelligence and lack of a criminal record in not giving him an even harsher punishment.