Florida man, 25, is jailed for cyberstalking victim of 1999 throat slashing attack and sending her pictures of the bloody scene after becoming obsessed with her when he researched the crime online
- Alvin Willie George, 25, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for cyberstalking
- George has also been ordered to pay $525.31 in restitution to one of his victims
- Tommy Lynn Sells was a drifter who was on Texas death row for 13-year-old Kaylene Harris’ slaughter in 1999
- During the attack, Sells also slashed friend Krystal Surles’ neck
- Sells was executed in Texas in 2014
- George began sending photos from the 1999 crime scene to Surles and her sister in Idaho in or around November 2016
A Florida man has been sentenced to just over five years in prison for using his Facebook to cyberstalk the surviving victim of a 1999 attack by serial killer Tommy Lynn Sells.
Alvin Willie George, 25, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for cyberstalking.
George has also been ordered to pay $525.31 in restitution to one of his victims, according to a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Idaho.
Alvin Willie George, 25, was sentenced to 51 months in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for cyberstalking.
George sent photos from the 1999 crime scene to Krystal Surles and her sister in or around November 2016. Surles survived the slashing to her neck during the 1999 attack that saw her friend murdered
Tommy Lynn Sells was a drifter who was on Texas death row for 13-year-old Kaylene Harris’ slaughter after he broke into her South Texas house while her family was asleep and stabbed her. Sells was executed in Texas in 2014.
During the attack, Sells also slashed friend Krystal Surles’ neck.
According to the release, George began sending photos from the 1999 crime scene to Surles and her sister in or around November 2016. He would send the graphic images to the family over the ‘next several months.’
Tommy Lynn Sells was a drifter who was on Texas death row for 13-year-old Kaylene Harris’ slaughter after he broke into her South Texas house while her family was asleep and stabbed her
At the time he was sending the images, all of the sisters lived in Idaho.
The release states that George did not know the sisters and researched the attack on the internet.
He made a series of Facebook accounts to send the ‘harassing and intimidating messages to these women,’ threatening to rape and kill them.
According to Florida Department of Correction records, George has a previous Dec. 2017 arrest for shooting and throwing missiles at vehicles.
Sells was executed in Texas in 2014
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