Tampa man sentenced to life in 2021 murder of nursing student
Vakarvery Scott, 22, will serve life without parole for the killing of Savannah Mathis, a Hillsborough judge ruled Thursday.
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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.