The body of 47-year-old Lisa Armstrong was found in a wooded area off Route 206 in Burlington County in 2013.
MOUNT HOLLY -- A Trenton man will spend life in prison for kidnapping, robbing and killing a woman in Tabernacle nearly three years ago.
Terrance J. Patterson, 39 of Trenton, was sentenced to life without parole for the kidnapping, robbery and killing of a 47-year-old Trenton woman in 2013. (Photo provided)Terrance J. Patterson, 39, was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the death of Lisa Armstrong, 47, Trenton, the Burlington County Prosecutor's Office said.
Patterson, of the 1200 block of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, was convicted on June 1 of executing Armstrong after Patterson and a now-deceased co-defendant took Armstrong from her home on South Cook Avenue, robbed her and then shot her twice in the head in a wooded area along Route 206 in Tabernacle.
Her body was discovered at the scene of the crime on Oct. 7, 2013 by land surveyors.
The co-defendant, 44-year-old Loraine Hawkins, died of cancer shortly after she was arrested and charged with murder in June 2014. Hawkins was said to be Armstrong's sponsor in Narcotics Anonymous.
Patterson was sentenced by Judge Charles Delehey to life without parole for the murder charge, as well as concurrent sentences of 20 years for robbery and 30 years for kidnapping.
"The defendant ruthlessly executed Lisa Armstrong in an attempt to conceal the fact that he had robbed her of money," Burlington County Prosecutor Robert Bernardi said in a written statement. "He will never walk the streets again, and he deserves that fate."
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