(KTTS News) – A Mountain View man has been sentenced for a 2022 deadly fire.
A judge sentenced Jacob D. Hearne to 24 years behind bars.
Hearne entered an Alford plea of second-degree murder in the death of his 62-year-old grandmother, Phyllis Schweinel, of Mountain View.
Investigators found Schweinel dead inside a burned home in the spring of 2022.
Hearne told police that he and his grandmother argued a lot.
Investigators say Hearne started the fire by lighting a coat on fire, then put it behind the chair his grandmother was sleeping in.
