The Brief

PHOENIX - A 30-year-old man from Arizona will spend the rest of his life behind bars, according to the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, for two murders that happened six years ago.

What we know:

According to a statement released on June 4, Brandon Andres Bautista Torres was sentenced to natural life in prison for First-Degree Murder in the death of his girlfriend.

Court documents also show he was given a 15-year concurrent prison sentence for manslaughter. Torres had pleaded guilty to both charges.

The backstory:

The deaths, per the statement, happened in June 2019.

"Glendale Police received a 911 call in which Torres claimed an intruder had broken into his home and shot his girlfriend and her daughter. Torres said he then took his toddler son to his parents’ house but

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