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Life sentences for defendant in Allston murders
By Globe Staff
A Cambridge man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murders last year of a 33-year-old Allston man and an 18-year-old woman.
Craig Smith, 38, was sentenced today to two life sentences, with no possibility of parole, for the Jan. 8, 2006, deaths of Julio Ceus and Natalie Sumner in Ceus's Kelton Street apartment, the Suffolk district attorney's office said.
Sumner had come to Boston from New Hampshire to visit Ceus's brother, who was her boyfriend.
Prosecutors said Smith and a still-unidentified second gunman entered Ceus's apartment and demanded cellphones and money from five people. Unsatisfied with what the victims gave him, Smith and the other gunman both opened fire, killing Ceus and Sumner and wounding a third person.
