Peter Manfredonia, the former UConn student who has pleaded guilty to killing two men during a brutal crime spree in 2020, was sentenced to 55 years in prison on Wednesday.

The 26-year-old faced sentencing in Superior Court in Milford where a large group of friends and family of Nick Eisele — one of Manfredonia’s victims — attended to see Manfredonia brought to justice.

The sentencing came after Manfredonia previously pleaded guilty to charges of murder and first-degree kidnapping in connection with a violent crime spree in May of 2020 in which he killed Eisele, his former classmate at Newtown High School, in Derby and kidnapped Eisele’s girlfriend before authorities launched a manhunt that ended in Maryland.

Manfredonia has also pleaded guilty to murder, assault and home invasion charges for his crimes in Willington, where he attacked an 80-year-old man and killed 62-year-old Theodore DeMers, according to police and court records.

He is expected to be sentenced for those crimes in Rockville Superior Court on Thursday.

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