Alyssa Gomez was featured in an LA Weekly story about Hollywood runaways (LA Weekly) |
LOS ANGELES -- A convicted rapist who killed a 15-year-old runaway in Hollywood four days after leaving prison has been sentenced to 110 years to life behind bars.
Gilton Pitre was sentenced Wednesday for strangling Alyssa Gomez in a Sunset Boulevard motel in 2007. Her body was dumped in an alley about a mile away.
Investigators say motel video showed him putting her bedding-covered body in a car.
The 38-year-old Pitre had just been paroled after serving time on a drug charge.
Pitre was convicted in May of first-degree murder and unlawful sex with a minor.
The life Alyssa Gomez was featured in an L.A. Weekly cover story (June 19, 2008, "Raven: Death of a Hollywood Beauty").
She was also the focus of a documentary in the works by actress Dyan Cannon.
The judge said Pitre's criminal history shows he has an "innate hatred for women" and can't be rehabilitated.
Besides prison, he was ordered to pay $7,300 for his victim's burial.
Gilton Pitre was sentenced Wednesday for strangling Alyssa Gomez in a Sunset Boulevard motel in 2007. Her body was dumped in an alley about a mile away.
Investigators say motel video showed him putting her bedding-covered body in a car.
The 38-year-old Pitre had just been paroled after serving time on a drug charge.
Pitre was convicted in May of first-degree murder and unlawful sex with a minor.
The life Alyssa Gomez was featured in an L.A. Weekly cover story (June 19, 2008, "Raven: Death of a Hollywood Beauty").
She was also the focus of a documentary in the works by actress Dyan Cannon.
The judge said Pitre's criminal history shows he has an "innate hatred for women" and can't be rehabilitated.
Besides prison, he was ordered to pay $7,300 for his victim's burial.
