NORTH PORT, Florida (WBBH) — A North Port man was found guilty and received a life sentence in prison on Friday for stabbing his adoptive parents to death in their home in 2023.
Dima James Tower, 24, committed the first-degree murder of Rob and Jennifer Tower, his adoptive parents, according to the verdict. He was also found guilty of fleeing/eluding law enforcement.
Tower grew up in Ukraine before his parents adopted him. When the North Port Police Department responded to the scene at the Tower’s home on Mallicoat Road in 2023, they said officers saw Tower bloodied and shutting the trunk of a vehicle. Officers tried to stop Tower, but he fled the scene in a black car…