Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Timothy Eugene Thomas, 35, has been sentenced to two life sentences after pleading nolo contendere to the 2010 murder of 16-year-old Sebastian Ochsenius, adding to his previous three life sentences.
On June 29, 2010, an intruder entered the Ochsenius home through a sliding glass door at about 3:45 a.m. and shot Sebastian, who had been playing video games with a friend in his family’s home in the neighborhood across NW 43rd Street from the Millhopper Branch Library. Sebastian’s friend said Sebastian had gotten up to walk to the kitchen, then gunshots rang out, and he and Sebastian’s father rushed to Sebastian, who died a short time later; they told responding officers that they didn’t see the shooter…