LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - A Lake Charles man was sentenced to life plus 50 years in prison after attacking his former girlfriend and killing her son when he tried to protect her.

Derik Kendall Rayborn was found guilty in June of the brutal New Year’s Day 2024 assault .

Rayborn “brutally attacked” the woman, who fell unconscious but later woke up and tried to escape, prosecutors said. He dragged her back inside and kept beating her, killing her son, Eric Bosley, 26, when he tried to intervene.

Rayborn also shot and killed a dog in the home, prosecutors said.

The victim escaped and went to the hospital, where Rayborn came looking for her and was arrested.

“It’s unbelievable that one human being could do this to another human being,” Sheriff Stitch Guillory said of the woman’s injur

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