NEW YORK (PIX11/AP) — A New York City prosecutor says a University of Florida law school graduate has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the torture and death of his girlfriend.
Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced the sentencing Tuesday of Jason Bohn. He was convicted of first-degree murder in March.
The trial evidence included a cellphone recording in which Weight Watchers financial analyst Danielle Thomas begged for her life. Authorities believe she accidentally dialed a friend’s number as she was being beaten and strangled in June 2012.
“This is your life” Bohn says to her in the recording, to which she replied: “I know.” Bohn continues to assault her, saying things like: “Danielle, you don’t have a lot of time” and ignoring her as she says, “Jason, I can’t breathe.”
According to trial testimony, police found two notes at the scene that read, “‘It was an accident . . . I had been drinking and I was drunk when I got home . . . She was already asleep . . . I woke up and there was fighting between us . . . When I woke up again she was unconscious . . . I am sorry.’ The second note read, in substance, ‘Dani, I will love you forever’ and was signed ‘J.’”
It wasn’t the first time that Bohn had abused her, according to testimony. A police sergeant said that in June of 2012 Thomas showed up at the 114th precinct with a black eye and on crutches, and he overheard Bohn say by phone, “This was war, that he would hunt her down like a dog in the streets.”
The 27-year-old Thomas was a native of Danville, Ky., and also had attended the University of Florida.
