35-year-old male who nearly two years ago used a cane to beat an elderly woman so brutally that she can’t walk, speak, or recognize her husband of more than half a century was sentenced to eight years in prison last week.

Alexander Adams on February 23, 2022, approached John Hopkins, 78, and his wife — 79-year-old Claudia Hopkins — outside a supermarket in Washington, D.C., and asked them for five dollars, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

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