Stephen Jacob ReedStephen Jacob Reed received a 40-year sentence Thursday in connection to the April 2016 double murder of two mothers in Cleveland, Tennessee.
Reed pleaded guilty in Bradley County Criminal Court to two counts of second-degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder, according to Cleveland police spokeswoman Sgt. Evie West. He was sentenced to 20 years on each killing and a 12-year term for attempted murder to be served concurrently.
On April 21, 2016, Cleveland police responded to a reported stabbing at the Springbrook Apartments at 2360 Blackburn Road just after 11:45 p.m., she said.
Police found Crystal York, 35, and Crystal Canino, 33, in one apartment, and 35-year-old Sewell Anthony Beck in another, West said. Both York and Canino died, and Beck was left critically injured. He survived.
Reed, who is also known as Stephen Jacob Gaddis, was standing in the roadway, his pants torn and covered in blood from his chin to his waist, the Times Free Press reported previously.