WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — A former suburban Chicago man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his father and stepmother in November 2006.
Fifty-six-year-old Michael Romano was sentenced Thursday after being found guilty in early October of fatally shooting his parents, Nick and Gloria Romano, in their home near Crystal Lake to get a share of a $2 million inheritance. But Michael Romano wasn’t aware his father had cut him out of his will years before the murders.
Romano was charged with first-degree murder and extradited from Las Vegas, where he had been working as a taxi driver, to McHenry County in 2014 after investigators reviewed evidence.
His attorney said after the sentencing hearing that Romano maintains his innocence and plans to appeal his conviction.
