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# Amahal Lynch Gets 40-To-Life For Strangling Girlfriend, Daughter In Nostrand Projects
- URL: https://bklyner.com/amahal-lynch-gets-40-to-life-for-strangling-girlfriend-daughter-in-nostrand-projects-sheepshead-bay/
- Published: 2012-04-19T15:00:14.000Z
- Updated: 2012-04-19T14:15:35.000Z
- Author: Ned Berke
- Tags: amahal lynch, kaliya williams, #API-Imported

![051810bathtub.jpg](http://gothamist.com/attachments/jsaxena/051810bathtub.jpg)

Amahal Lynch offered no apologies after a judge sentenced him to 40 years to life for the brutal 2010 murder of his girlfriend and her 8-year-old daughter.

“People make mistakes,” Lynch told the victims’ relatives who demanded a statement, [according to the Daily News](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn-thug-strangled-ex-girlfriend-daughter-40-years-life-article-1.1063684?localLinksEnabled=false&ref=bklyner.com). “God is good, you know. I repented, you know.”

The crime was revealed in May 2010, when police were called to the scene of a burglary in the Sheepshead-Nostrand Houses. What authorities found were the [naked lifeless bodies of Shakeema Elliot, 29, and her daughter Kaliya Williams](/mother-daughter-found-dead-in-nostrand-houses/) in the bathtub, and pills scattered around.

But upon further investigation, police concluded that the bodies had been moved and arranged to suggest a murder-suicide, and the medical examiner soon found that both had been strangled to death and the 8-year-old sexually abused.

[Lynch admitted to the 2010 double murder](/nostrand-houses-mother-daughter-murder-sheepshead-bay/) after officers nabbed the East New York resident days after the crime.

By confessing and pleading guilty, Lynch avoided a sentence of life without parole.