Christopher Ken Ireland killed two women with a meat cleaver after a New Year’s Eve party in 2017 while his wife and son waited in a car outside. He was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Highlights
- Christopher Ken Ireland killed two women with a meat cleaver after a New Year’s Eve party in 2017 while his wife and 11-year-old son waited in a car outside.
- Ireland testified that he killed Yolanda Holtrey, 59, and Michelle Luke, 49, on Jan.
- 1, 2017.
- Ireland said he was defending himself after Holtrey attacked him with the cleaver and later Luke attacked him.
- Ireland, an army veteran with hand-to-hand combat training, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole in Orange County Superior Court by a judge who called the killings vicious and callous.