A Brooklyn thug who shot and killed an aspiring musician from Idaho in a robbery gone wrong was sentenced to 23 years to life behind bars Tuesday.
Tyshawn Augustus, 27, was convicted of murder in December 2013 for killing Troy Young, 29, in a 2009 sex-for-drugs hookup that devolved into a robbery of Young’s Fender Stratocaster from his Carroll Gardens apartment, prosecutors said.
“In the course of the robbery there was a struggle. The defendants shot Troy Young once and stole his guitar,” said Brooklyn prosecutor James Leeper.
“Troy was the youngest of my five children – four boys and one girl – he was my baby and my rock,” mom Beverly Thibodeau said in a statement read by Leeper.
“I can’t imagine why someone would murder my son the way he was murdered.”
Young had come to the Big Apple chasing his dream of becoming a rock star, his family has said.
Defense attorney Doug Appel said Augustus wouldn’t speak at his sentencing because he plans to appeal his conviction.
As he was sentenced, Augustus held a paperback book, “The Intelligent Investor,” which is described on Amazon as containing “timeless wisdom for today’s market conditions.”