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The victim, 21-year-old Dianna Brice, was last seen in Delaware County getting into a car with Smith.<\/p>\n
Her body was later found in Southwest Philadelphia, with multiple gunshot wounds to the head.<\/p>\n
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“I will never, ever forgive this man for what he did to my daughter, my unborn grandson, and her son that is now nine years old,” Brice’s mother, Betty Cellini, said.<\/p>\n
Smith was convicted of first- and third-degree murder.<\/p>\n
He has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.<\/p>\n
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