Texas man sentenced in brutal murder of girlfriend whose body was found under couch with throat slit

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Texas man sentenced in brutal murder of girlfriend whose body was found under couch with throat slit
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Anthony Young, 45, pleaded guilty last month to the murder of his girlfriend, 65-year-old Laurel Schick, at the couple's apartment in Tarrant County, Texas, in January 2021.

convicted of murdering his girlfriend and hiding her body under a couch has been sentenced to 40 years in prison, officials said Wednesday.last month to the murder 65-year-old Laurel Schick in January 2021, the Tarrant County Criminal District Attorney’s Office said.

On the weekend when the wedding was supposed to take place, neighbors heard yelling and the sounds of glass and tables being broken in the couple’s apartment, prosecutors said. on the following Monday for a welfare check and found broken furniture and glass inside the apartment. Schick’s body – bruised and bloodied – was found under a couch.was listed as violent blunt force trauma to the head, the Tarrant County medical examiner said at the time.at the time of the murder, and detectives said he appeared to"have no sympathy, care or sadness in the fact that Schick was deceased" during an interrogation, KTVT reported.

"You took an old woman and used her, … beat the hell out of her," Sam McElwee, one of Schick’s sons, told Young at the sentencing.

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