Mark Tinney, center, the father of Sophie Tinney, sits with loved ones at the sentencing hearing for Lars Nelson, not pictured, on Thursday, June 4, 2026, at Pierce County Superior Court in Tacoma. Nelson pleaded guilty in April to second-degree murder for fatally shooting 27-year-old Sophie Tinney on April 20, 2025 in a Fox Island home.

Kouri Richins, a Utah mother who wrote a children’s book on grief after her husband’s death, was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison without parole for his murder.

Burton was given nearly a year of jail credit for the time he spent behind bars while his case wound through the system.