"Not a day goes by that I don't think about all the great things Askia should have gone on to do," he said.
On Tuesday, Beckwitt described Khafra as a good friend and said he still mourns him "to this day." He didn't testify at his trial, but he apologized to Khafra's parents before Schweitzer sentenced him in June 2019.
"I hope you do what you can do, which is use your intelligence for good." Askia Khafra (left) died beneath the home of Daniel Beckwitt (right)īeckwitt, 30, initially was sentenced in 2019 to nine years in prison after a jury convicted him of second-degree "depraved heart" murder and involuntary manslaughter in the September 2017 death of 21-year-old Askia Khafra.īeckwitt has been imprisoned since his April 2019 trial conviction. "I hope this is your opportunity to give back to our community," she said.
Noting that Beckwitt could be released soon, Montgomery County Circuit Court Judge Margaret Schweitzer also sentenced him to five years of supervised probation after his release and ordered him to perform 250 hours of community service. A wealthy stock trader was resentenced on Tuesday to five years in prison for his role in the fiery death of a man who was helping him secretly dig tunnels for a nuclear bunker under a home in a Maryland suburb of Washington, D.C.ĭaniel Beckwitt already has been incarcerated for nearly three years and is statutorily eligible for parole because he has served more than a quarter of his sentence.