Daily Stormer
August 25, 2016
Well, you know. You have to consider what he went through during slavery.
Nicole Worster calmly stood up inside a Worcester courtroom just feet from the man who was found guilty of killing her father and said the ability to say bye to her loved one was ripped away.
“I was robbed of my final goodbye,” she said before Howard Penn was sentenced for fatally shooting her father, Lloyd Worster.
Nicole Worster remembered standing inside St. Vincent Hospital as her father’s lifeless body was on a nearby table. She remembered being told she could not touch her father because he still needed to be processed for evidence.
“I could not hug him or kiss him,” she said. “I could merely just stand there and stare at him and tell him how much I loved him and how much I would miss him.”
A Worcester Superior Court jury found Penn guilty of voluntary manslaughter after he was on trial for the killing of Worster in January 2014. Penn was working as a security guard inside the Albion rooming house on Main Street when he shot Worster in the back.
Worster’s daughter asked the judge to give Penn the maximum penalty in the case.
“And may you please take into consideration the life sentence of heartache, grief, and pain our family is now serving,” she said. A niece of Worster called Penn a coward who shot Worster in the back.
Judge David Ricciardone sentenced Penn to serve 17-to-20 years in prison on the voluntary manslaughter charge. He received concurrent sentences of one and two years in prison for firearm and ammunition possession charges.