A Pennsylvania court on Tuesday, November 3, sentenced Scott Matthew Hilton, 49, to 45 years in prison with no possibility of parole for killing Haitian journalist and poet Schultz Laurent Junior, Le Nouvelliste reported.

Schultz Laurent Junior, 51, was stabbed to death on October 28, 2025, on Wadsworth Avenue in the Cedarbrook area of East Mount Airy, in Philadelphia.

A relative who spoke to Le Nouvelliste said Hilton “burst into tears” when the sentence was read.

The sentence was handed down a little over a year after the killing.