A Columbia man was sentenced to 35 years in prison by a Howard County Circuit judge yesterday after pleading guilty to first-degree murder, admitting that he repeatedly stabbed his roommate in their Owen Brown apartment in August 2003.
Elmer Antonio Galvan-Giron, 34, stabbed Rigoberto Zavala, 40, days after a confrontation in which Zavala yelled at Galvan-Giron's teenage children and struck one on the head with a remote control, according to a sentencing document. Judge Dennis M. Sweeney sentenced Galvan-Giron.
Galvan-Giron is one of three Honduran immigrants convicted in the death of Zavala.
