Phyllis Rodriguez is fighting a battle every day as she lives without her slain son. It's been nearly two years since 19-year-old Bartholomew Kyle Robinson was shot to death on Seldendale Drive in Hampton. He was the youngest of Rodriguez's three children and her only son. Last week, Circuit Court Judge R. Bruce Long, the retired judge substituting on the case, sentenced her son's killer, Tyreek Braxton, to serve 23 years in prison for gunning down Robinson on Dec. 1, 2012. In June, Braxton, 22, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and using a firearm in the commission of a felony....
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