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Vakarvery Scott, 22, will serve life without parole for the killing of Savannah Mathis, a Hillsborough judge ruled Thursday.

Savannah Mathis was 21 years old when a man shot and killed her in December 2021 while she was driving near Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park in Tampa.

In a Tampa courtroom on Thursday afternoon, a convicted murderer will learn his fate as he faces life in prison for killing a young nursing student.

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.

A man accused of gunning down a Tampa nursing student while she sat in a car with her sister in December 2021 took the stand in his own defense on Thursday afternoon. 

Vakarvery Scott is charged with murder in the 2021 killing of Savannah Mathis, 21. If convicted, he faces life in prison.

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One night in 2021, a Tampa nursing student and her younger sister were leaving their family’s restaurant, BJ’s Alabama BBQ on South Dale Mabry Highway. About an hour after the sisters hugged their aunt goodbye, police found their bullet-ridden Nissan Altima in Tampa’s West Riverfront neighborhood. Savannah Mathis, 21, had been shot in the head as she drove down the street. Now, two years ...

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