GREENBELT, MARYLAND — A Maryland man who brutally murdered and dismembered a beloved elementary school teacher during her evening walk has been sentenced to life in prison without parole, closing one of the state’s most shocking murder cases in recent memory.
34-year-old Harold Francis Landon III was convicted in June of first-degree murder for the July 2023 killing of 59-year-old Mariame Toure Sylla, a beloved second-grade teacher at Dora Kennedy French Immersion School.
On Friday, Judge Carol Coderre handed down the life sentence, saying the brutality of the crime and its impact on the community warranted the harshest punishment possible…