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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — A man who killed his neighbor after she found him burglarizing her home outside New York City is heading to prison.
Authorities say 33-year-old Lloyd Lewis was sentenced Thursday to 22 years to life in prison. Lewis pleaded guilty in March to killing 85-year-old Emma Gruber.
Investigators say Lewis broke into Gruber's Mount Vernon home in February 2014 to steal copper pipes. They say he bludgeoned her to death with a piece of plywood when she interrupted him.
She was discovered two days later under a pile of clothes at the bottom of her basement stairs. Authorities say Lewis sold several items from Gruber's home to a pawn shop and scrap yard.
Gruber was well known in her neighborhood and at Greater Centennial AME Zion Church, where she was an usher.
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