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Man who used a paver stone to kill another homeless man in downtown Salt Lake City gets 18-years-to-life sentence

As she stood at the podium inside a Salt Lake City courtroom, Joanna White turned to face the man who brutally killed her son’s father.

“You’re going to be in your own personal hell, I feel,” White told the man. “And I’m sorry for that. I don’t believe you have evil in your heart.”

Kegler, a 43-year-old homeless man, admitted earlier this year that he attacked Kevin McCann and three others in the downtown Salt Lake City homeless district using a paving stone and rocks in July 2017. McCann, 55, had been sitting in front of a storage unit business looking at a tablet when Kegler hit his head with a 53-pound cement block.