Repeat offender gets 25 years in prison for stabbing woman in Durham park
A Durham man with a long criminal record will spend at least the next 25 years in prison for the stabbing death of a woman in 2018.
Posted — UpdatedAlicia Elder, a social worker who fostered and cared for children and her family, was found dead in Hillside Park, off South Roxboro Street, on Jan. 30, 2018.
According to an autopsy report, Elder was stabbed 31 times in the head and neck, 20 times in her chest, abdomen and back and 10 times in her arms and shoulders. The wounds punctured a lung, damaged her brain and severed major arteries, the report states.
At the time of his arrest, prosecutors said Person had 19 prior convictions, six of them related to violent crimes.
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