A man who killed a Canadian rabbinical student because he looked Jewish was sentenced Wednesday in Pittsburgh to 10 to 20 years in prison. Steven Tielsch received the maximum sentence for third-degree murder under guidelines in effect in April 1986, when Neal Rosenblum was shot five times after leaving a synagogue, The Associated Press reported.
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