PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) — The Philadelphia man who admitted to shooting and killing his girlfriend in front of her 11-year-old son just before Christmas two years ago was sentenced Monday to decades in prison.
Family and friends of 35-year-old Tatiana Vargas sniffled and sobbed through the sentencing hearing of Abuid Torres, who shot and killed Vargas on Dec. 23, 2023, in Kensington.
Vargas’ sister read aloud a letter about the bubbly and kind woman who would help anyone, had a big laugh and loved being a mother. Overcome with grief, the prosecutor handling the case took over reading, said the family’s grief is “unbearable” and has left her son and family fearful that Torres will ever get out of jail. She called him a “monster” who abused her sister, often leaving her with black eyes…