Sentenced to life in prison, Brian Flowers, 17, offered a tearful apology to the family of his victims: a Minneapolis mother and her 10-year-old son.

Flowers' attorney, Perry Moriearty said she and Mary Moriarty — similar names, no relation — were colleagues at the University of Minnesota Law School and consulted on Flowers' case.

In 2009, Brian Flowers and Stafon Thompson were convicted in separate first-degree premeditated murder trials. Thompson was 17 at the time of the crime, and Flowers was one month away from turning 17.