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Bianca Devins family delivers powerful victim impact statements at killer s sentencing
Bianca Devins family sent their daughter s, granddaughter s and sister s killer off to prison with a clear picture of what he took from them.
Posted: Mar 16, 2021 5:22 PM
Updated: Mar 16, 2021 5:54 PM
Posted By: Joleen Ferris
UTICA, N.Y. Bianca Devins family sent their daughter s, granddaughter s and sister s killer off to prison with a clear picture of what he took from them. I have to live the rest of my life knowing that I had to say goodbye to my sister in a funeral home and I don t even know if she heard me, Olivia Devins said, through tears, at the sentencing of Brandon Clark, in Oneida County Court, Tuesday. Tears caused by grief are not normal tears. It is a sensation that consumes you. It consumes you to the point where it feels as though someone is stepping on your chest and pulling on your throat.
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Brandon Clark pleaded guilty to the July 2019 killing of 17-year-old Bianca Devins.
A New York man who cut a 17-year-old girl’s throat in July 2019 and posted photos of the murder online in real time was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison.
Brandon Clark, 22, pleaded guilty in February 2020 to the second-degree murder of Bianca Devins. Clark documented her slaying as it was unfolding, and photos of Devins’ dead body went viral on social media at the time.
Three members of Devins’ family read emotional impact statements during the sentencing hearing at Oneida County Courthouse in Utica, describing the void her death left in their lives.
Observer-Dispatch
After nearly two years since her death, the Bridgeport man who was convicted and pleaded guilty to the stabbing death of Utica teen Bianca Devins and later unsuccessfully attempted to withdraw that plea was sentenced Tuesday morning in Oneida County Court to 25 years to life in state prison.
Brandon Clark, 23, pleaded guilty last February to the second-degree murder of 17-year-old Devins in July 2019 in East Utica while on their way back from a concert.
Speaking before Clark’s sentencing, prosecutor Sarah DeMellier said Clark not only researched and planned Devins’ murder, but also recorded and posted footage online. We saw her fight desperately for her life. DeMellier said. There was no way she could have seen it coming.