Ameen Hurst, then 16. Click to enlarge.

Using Robert Stacy McCain’s formulation, say hello to Ameen Hurst, and while you’re at it, you can say goodbye as well.

However, unlike Mr McCain’s “say goodbye” bit, young Mr Hurst has not died due to his own stupidity. Rather, say goodbye because this teenaged killer was just sentenced to 55 to 110 years in prison.

Ameen Hurst sentenced to 55 to 110 years in prison for four murders, robberies as a teenager

Ameen Hurst was arrested at age 16 and charged with killing four people. He was sentenced to 55 to 110 years in prison on Thursday.

by Ellie Rushing | Thursday, November 14, 2024 | 4:00 PM EST

By the time Ameen Hurst becomes eligible for parole, he will be an elderly man — nearly three-quarters of the way to 100 years old, and nearly five times the age he was when he committed the crimes that landed him in prison.

For shooting and killing four people, robbing two convenience stores at gunpoint, and then escaping from prison while awaiting trial, Hurst was sentenced Thursday to 55 to 110 years in prison. The sentence surprised even veteran Philadelphia prosecutors — Hurst, after all, was just 16 when he committed the crimes.

Such a sentence shouldn’t be a surprise; such a sentence should be common for someone who murdered four people. Given that young Mr Hurst has already escaped from the Philadelphia Industrial Correctional Center, back in May of 2023, while he was still awaiting trial, I suspect that he won’t accumulate too many good behavior time credits. I do have to wonder why, after initially being arrested in April of 2021, it took 3½ years to bring him to trial.

Now the only question is whether the George Soros-sponsored, police-hating and criminal-loving District Attorney, Larry Krasner, will pull some stupid stuff to try to get Mr Hurst out of jail sooner.

But as Common Pleas Court Judge J. Scott O’Keefe put it, “These crimes are outrageous.” Depraved, even, he said.

Hurst shot his victims more than a dozen times, prosecutors said, then laughed about it with callousness.

The distinguished Mr Hurst apparently thought that he’d get a slap on the wrist.

And so, the judge said, Hurst deserved to be behind bars for nearly the rest of his life.

Upon that judgment, Hurst, now 20, held his face in his hands. Then he turned to his lawyer, Gary Silver, in frustration.

“You told me, bro!” he said with exasperation. He balled his fists and said, “I should f― you up,” before he was led out of the courtroom.

Quite a change in attitude from just moments earlier, when he has apologized to the families of his victims, asking for forgiveness, and pleading for mercy from Judge O’Keefe.

That was, of course, all for show, as there was plenty of evidence that Mr Hurst was sorry only for having gotten caught.

It was reporter Ellie Rushing’s penultimate paragraph which had me shaking my head:

When O’Keefe pronounced his lengthy sentence, the courtroom erupted in whispers and sobs. Nearly 60 people had come in support of Hurst, and filled the benches behind him.

“Nearly 60 people had come in support” of a stone-cold killer? Yeah, that sounds about right in the City of Brotherly Love.