Tucker Cipriano in court Wednesday.
Tucker Cipriano, 20, and Mitchell Young, 21, will be imprisoned for the rest of their lives.
Judge Shalina Kumar imposed the mandatory no-parole sentences Wednesday afternoon in Oakland County Circuit Court.
"You ruined your life. You ruined the lives of people who did nothing but help you," she said to Cipriano in the Pontiac courtroom, where the a live video feed was provided to the news media. Jim Schaefer of the Free Press and others live-blogged from court.
"My father was a great man," Cipriano said earlier, reading from a four-page statement as he paused repeatedly to regain his composure. "I want my dad back. . . . I'm taking responsibility for my actions. . . . This is my act of contrition."
Cipriano had pleaded no contest to charges of killing his father Robert and injuring his mother Rose and 17-year-old brother Sal with a baseball bat at their Farmington Hills home in April 2012.
Mitchell Young
Jurors took fewer than two hours to convict Young of first-degree murder, assault with intent to murder and other charges.
He continues to maintain his innocence and will appeal the conviction, defense attorney Mike McCarthy said before sentencing. Young also read a statement, saying: "I never intended for any of this to happen and every day I deeply regret that I was unable to stop it."
Young, who is from Westland and had met Tucker Cipriano a few weeks before the crimes, didn't know the victims.
Rose Cipriano has recovered after months of treatment, according to The Detroit News, but Sal requires constant care for multiple skull fractures and brain injury.
