US man gets 375-year jail for killing 3 people over FB post

A man from New Jersey in United States has been sentenced to 375 years in prison for brutally murdering two children and a college student in 2016 over a Facebook post, officials said.

31-year-old Jeremy Arrington has been handed three consecutive life sentences for killing 7-year-old Ariel Whitehurst, her 11-year-old brother Al-Jahon Whitehurst, as well as Syasia McBurroughs, a 23-year-old friend of the family who was visiting them in November 2016.

He also stabbed the murdered children’s mother and two 13-year-old twins but they survived. He was charged with attempted murder on those counts and given three consecutive 50-year sentences.

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Arrington was enraged after one of the stabbing victims reposted a police alert on Facebook that named him as a suspect in an earlier shooting and sexual assault case.