Man says he had sex with victim, but jury finds he robbed and killed him

An Oklahoma man was sentenced to life in prison Friday after a jury found him guilty of first-degree murder in the 2008 suffocation death of Coconut Creek resident Ralph Apuzzo.

Appuzo’s bound body was found by relatives at his home in late December 2008. Prosecutors Antonya Johnson and Molly McGuire said he was killed by two men he had met hours earlier at a Wilton Manors nightspot.

One of those men, James Gentry, was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced Friday to life in prison by Broward Circuit Judge Michael Usan.

Gentry’s brother, Timothy Gentry, had already pleaded no contest in the same incident and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

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