Magai Anai Kur.
He did it because of the Holocaust.
No wait: the Crusades.
Or was it slavery? I think it was because of slavery.
Robert Howe’s great-granddaughter still has nightmares about the day he was stabbed.
The girl, then 8, remembers walking downstairs to find what soon became a crime scene in her elder’s Urbandale home — a place she loved and considered safe. She could hardly breathe, crying nonstop with her 5-year-old sister.
“There was blood everywhere,” Kadyn, wearing a pink bow, said softly in a Polk County courtroom. “I don’t know why the bad guy had to ruin our lives.”
The child took the stand in front of Magai Anai Kur, 20, before he was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole. He was convicted of murder, robbery and burglary earlier this year in the stabbing of the girl’s 77-year-old great-grandfather, who died months after the September 2017 home invasion.
Judge Robert Hanson set the Des Moines man’s sentences to run consecutively, sending him to life in prison with 25 years each for the robbery and burglary convictions. Asked if he wanted speak, Anai Kur slightly shook his head and said “no.”
Assistant Polk County Attorney Olu Salami called the stabbing heinous and senseless. Instead of leaving the home when he realized people were inside, Anai Kur attacked the innocent elderly man while he was asleep, he said.
Robert Howe.