Sentence for DC man convicted of 2023 murder astonishes Montgomery Co.’s top prosecutor

A Southeast D.C. man was sentenced Friday to life in prison, with all but 15 years suspended and another five years of supervised probation upon release for the deadly stabbing of a Rockville, Maryland, man in 2023.

Tyrone Curtis, 35, was convicted of first-degree murder in January for killing Amontae Cunningham, 29, on April 5, 2023.

Cunningham was a passenger on a Metrobus and had gotten into an argument with Curtis, according to court documents. When the bus stopped in front of...