Mark Anthony Skeete, 35, once faced the possibility of the death penalty if convicted of the slayings prostitution and drug deals gone bad committed within an 18-day span in the summer of 2014. But federal prosecutors took capital punishment off the table in June.
A New York man and member of the Nine Trey Gangsters was sentenced to two consecutive terms of life in prison for the murders of two men in Newport News in June and July 2014.
Mark Skeete was found to have murdered two other people in Richmond during September of 2014, and he was sentenced to 75 years in prison for those homicides.