Cleaver-wielding man gets life in prison for killing NY psychologist

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Cleaver-wielding man gets life in prison for killing NY psychologist

By Lindsay Dunsmuir NEW YORK (Reuters) - A cleaver- and mallet-wielding man who killed a psychologist in her Manhattan office during a botched robbery six years ago was sentenced on Friday to life in prison without parole, prosecutors said. Despite his insanity defense, David Tarloff, 46, was convicted in March of murder and assault in the attack on Kathryn Faughey, who was bludgeoned and stabbed to death, and her colleague, psychiatrist Kent Shinbach, MD, who was seriously injured, at their offices on New York's Upper East Side. Faughey died after being stabbed in the chest and struck multiple times on the head with a mallet in the February 2008 attack, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr., said in a press release. The sentencing in state Supreme Court in Manhattan on Friday marks the end of the long-running case, which had hinged on Tarloff's psychological condition.

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