Photos: Victor Enrique Garcia sentencing

Mark Kessler, right, the stepfather of murder victim T.R.E.L. Zawko, pauses while testifying at a sentencing hearing for Victor Enrique Garcia, left, on Friday, June 19, 2015 at Nesbett Courthouse. Defense attorney Dan Lowery, center, listens. Anchorage Superior Court Judge Jack Smith sentenced Garcia, 24, to 40 years in prison for killing his neighbor with a baseball bat. It was maximum sentence recommended under a plea deal. Garcia pleaded guilty to murdering 21-year-old T.R.E.L. Zawko in January, well over a year after the murder. Prosecutors dropped a first-degree murder charge in exchange for Garcia’s plea to murder in the second degree.