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Brandon Ortiz Vite, a citizen of Mexico, appears for sentencing, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, at the Kent County Courthouse in Grand Rapids, Mich., after earlier pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the March killing of his girlfriend, Ruby Garcia, 25. (Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)

Brandon Ortiz Vite, a citizen of Mexico, appears for sentencing, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, at the Kent County Courthouse in Grand Rapids, Mich., after earlier pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the March killing of his girlfriend, Ruby Garcia, 25. (Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)

Brandon Ortiz Vite, a citizen of Mexico, gives a statement before being sentenced Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, at the Kent County Courthouse in Grand Rapids, Mich., after earlier pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the March killing of his girlfriend, Ruby Garcia, 25. (Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)

Brandon Ortiz Vite, a citizen of Mexico, gives a statement before being sentenced Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, at the Kent County Courthouse in Grand Rapids, Mich., after earlier pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the March killing of his girlfriend, Ruby Garcia, 25. (Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)

Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker talks to the media after Brandon Ortiz Vite, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, at the Kent County Courthouse, Grand Rapids, Mich., after earlier pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the March killing of his girlfriend, Ruby Garcia, 25. (Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)

Kent County Prosecutor Chris Becker talks to the media after Brandon Ortiz Vite, a citizen of Mexico, was sentenced on Thursday, Nov. 7, 2024, at the Kent County Courthouse, Grand Rapids, Mich., after earlier pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the March killing of his girlfriend, Ruby Garcia, 25. (Joel Bissell/Kalamazoo Gazette via AP)