
Inset: Nicholas Fiebka (Schenectady District Attorney’s Office). Background: Police outside the home where Fiebka killed his mother and her boyfriend (WNYT)
A 21-year-old man in New York will spend the rest of his days behind bars for killing his 59-year-old mother and her 61-year-old longtime partner, shooting them both multiple times with an illegally modified AK-47 less than a year after he’d been kicked out of their home.
Schenectady County Court Judge Matthew J. Sypniewski on Friday ordered Nicholas Fiebka to serve a sentence of life in prison without parole for the 2022 gruesome slayings of Alesia Wadsworth and William Horwedel.
Prosecutors said that Fiebka was only inside the home for 32 seconds, during which time he fired at least 44 rounds at the victims.
A jury in June rejected defense arguments that Fiebka was suffering from a mental illness at the time of the shooting, taking only three hours to find him guilty on two counts of first-degree murder and numerous other crimes, including criminal possession of a rapid-fire modification device, possessing a large capacity ammunition feeding device, and possession of a weapon with the intent to use it unlawfully against another.