‘Never saw it coming’: 84-year-old lying on couch blown away by gunman who ‘came to kill’ his family

A Texas man has learned his fate for kicking down the door of a home, gunning down an unsuspecting man, and then chasing down another victim before killing him.

A Tarrant County jury found 37-year-old Reid Rothenberg guilty of capital murder in the killings of 41-year-old Matthew Stuart and 84-year-old George Nitsche, the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office announced. The defendant was “automatically” sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

On the night of April 10, 2022, Stuart, Nitsche, and Stuart’s then-67-year-old mother were at a home on Ivy Hill Drive in Arlington, Texas. Stuart’s mother was also Nitsche’s ex-wife…

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