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Tewana Sullivan beat her 66 year-old friend to death with a crock pot. Then she tied the cord around her neck.
Tewana Sullivan was sentenced to 23 years in prison on Monday. In 2016 she beat her 66 year-old friend Cheryl Livy to death over the 2016 election.
Livy was found baring breathing with the cord of the crock pot wrapped around her neck. The AP reported:
A Detroit woman who was drunk when she killed a friend with a slow cooker during an argument over presidential politics was sentenced Monday to at least 23 years in prison.
A judge followed the recommended sentence in a plea deal between prosecutors and Tewana Sullivan, who has a history of bipolar disorder but was declared competent to go to trial.
Sullivan, 51, beat Cheryl Livy, 66, with a slow cooker at the victim’s Livonia apartment in October. At the time, Sullivan’s blood-alcohol level was 0.41 — five times the level for drunken driving in Michigan, defense attorney John McWilliams said.
“I didn’t take my medication like I was supposed to, so I did mess up,” Sullivan told Wayne County Judge Michael Hathaway. “Without me taking my medication, that was the worst thing I could ever have done.”
McWilliams said the two were arguing about the 2016 race for president.
“One was for one major political party and the other was for the other major political party,” he said.
