Best Buy Delivery Man Receives Life Sentence for Fatally Beating, Burning Elderly Customer

A delivery man for Best Buy was sentenced to life plus 30 years for fatally beating a grandmother and setting her on fire.

Cops in Boca Raton, Florida, said the defendant, Jorge Dupre Lachazo, 24, was a helper for a delivery driver bringing a new washer and dryer to the home of the victim, Evelyn Smith Udell, 75. But when his colleague stepped outside to return some phone calls to the home office, Lachazo struck her with a mallet and doused her with a flammable chemical, according to the probable cause affidavit.

Police discovered the 75-year-old unconscious on the laundry room floor of her home.

“Udell had blunt force injuries to her head and severe burns to a majority of her body,” officers said. “According to B.R.F.D. personnel, who arrived on scene first, the victim was located on the floor of the laundry room, leaning up against the washing machine and her clothing was fully engulfed. The dryer was running and they also located all of the burners on the stove and the oven turned on.”

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