Larry Brown, 29, was sentenced to 90 years in prison on Tuesday, August 20, according to a news release from Burlington County Prosecutor LaChia Bradshaw. In March, a jury found him guilty of 12 crimes, including first-degree murder.
The jury found Brown guilty of killing Cecilio Luciano, 34, inside a Bentley Avenue residence in Beverly City. Officers rushed to the house about 1:15 a.m. on Tuesday, June 14, 2022, after learning that Brown had slain Luciano and was inside with a woman and four children.
Brown refused to leave his home and was involved in a seven-hour confrontation with authorities. The wife and children fled the house uninjured for several hours before Brown surrendered at 8:30 a.m.
Brown, who primarily lived with a relative in Burlington Township, faced arrest. State police recovered Luciano’s body inside the home, and an examination revealed that a baseball bat had killed him.
A Change.org petition honoring Luciano claims that Brown intended to murder him and that it was not a crime of passion.
“While he was jealous of the relationship between Cecilio and the mother of [Brown’s] three children, he did not unknowingly walk into the home and catch the two together,” the petition’s organizer, Annalee Avila, stated. ” Instead, when he spotted Cecilio in the house, he became fascinated by the idea and planned to execute a murder. He committed first-degree murder, endangered, terrified, and jeopardized the welfare of his own three children and Cecilio’s boy; possessed a loaded revolver less than 450 feet from a school zone; and violated his probation.
Along with murder, Brown was found guilty of five counts of first-degree kidnapping, second-degree unlawful possession of a handgun, third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, third-degree possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, third-degree certain persons not to have weapons, third-degree making terroristic threats, and fourth-degree unlawful possession of a weapon.
Brown must serve 73 years in prison before being eligible for release.
