Man Guilty Of Slaying RI Couple In 2000 Requests Compassionate Release

Providence RI

26 May, 2020

7:45 AM

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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In June of 2000, a young couple was carjacked in Providence and driven to a golf course in Johnston. There, 20-year-old Jason Burgeson and Amy Shute we're blindfolded and told to turn over their cash. Between them, they had $18. Moments later, they were shot and killed by Greg Floyd . "Floyd gave absolutely no compassion to Jason and Amy that night in June," said Jason's sister, Kellie Burgeson-Surdis. Floyd is serving a federal life sentence, and is being held in North Carolina, but he has petitioned for compassionate release, possibly because of COVID-19. "He admitted in his own testimony, 'I felt nothing when I pulled the trigger. They were begging for their lives, and I felt nothing,'" Burgeson-Surdis said. Read more at CBS Boston