A man upset about his recent breakup with his girlfriend agreed to babysit her kids, then he killed her 2-year-old daughter, Florida authorities said.

A jury convicted 27-year-old Travis Thompson of first-degree murder , and a judge sentenced him to life in prison, the State Attorney’s Office for the Fifth Judicial Circuit shared June 5.

His attorney declined to comment to McClatchy News, adding that the case is being appealed.

Deputies with the Marion County Sheriff’s Office wrote in an arrest affidavit that Thompson and the child’s mother were longtime friends and had been in a relationship for a few months before breaking up a week before the incident on May 3, 2022.

Text messages revealed Thompson was angry about the breakup, investigators said.

The woman and her two children ha

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