Woman sentenced to 22 years for robbery, murder of taxi driver

Dianna Barsotti is racked with guilt.
It has been 19 months since her son, Timothy Royce, was shot to death and she still cannot sleep without help.
"I'm haunted by images of my son dying alone in an alley with two bullets in his back, lying in the dark with no one to help him," Barsotti sobbed. "Did he know what happened? Did he have time to be frightened? Did he call for help?"
It is a mother's job to comfort her children and she was not there, Barsotti said.
Barsotti was in Pima County Superior Court Monday to attend the sentencing hearing for one of three people charged with first-degree murder in her son's death.
Marisela N. Pacheco, 31, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed robbery.
Her 22-year prison sentence for murder (every day of which must be served) was agreed to ahead of time. Judge Richard Fields had to decide what to give Pacheco on the armed robbery charge and whether to run it concurrently or consecutively with the murder sentence.

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