A 45-year-old man in Michigan faces life in prison after he beat his girlfriend until she was barely recognizable and then passed out in the car next to her body.
Martin Yost was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of 45-year-old Dhoua Liz Lao following a two-week trial in the Mitten State, the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office said in a press release.
The incident occurred on Nov. 13, 2023, when police in Roseville, a Detroit suburb, found Lao’s body and the sleeping Yost in his car. He was in the driver’s seat while she was in the passenger’s seat. Prosecutors said the murder was domestic violence-related…