Victoria Afet said only a few words during her sentencing on Thursday.

“I’d like to apologize to the family and Connie Tuori,” Afet said.

Her apology, the family said, was devoid of meaning.

“It’s difficult. It carries very little weight, and it’s almost comical that she thinks it would have an impact on our lives,” Tuori’s great nephew, Owen Tuori, said.

New details of the murder emerged on Thursday.

“Connie, a 93-year-old woman who accomplished so much, was admired by so many, was killed in a vicious and horrible manner,” Chief District Attorney Melinda McGunnigle said.

On February 26, 2021, before killing Tuori, Afet lurked in a stairwell waiting for Tuori to open her apartment door. As seen on surveillance video, Afet darted across the hall to get in the door before it was closed, and stayed in Tuori’s apartment for about an hour.

While inside, Afet suffocated Tuori, stuffed items down her throat and stabbed her multiple times, only once while Tuori was still alive, according to McGunnigle.

After an hour, Afet left the apartment wearing Tuori’s clothes.

“And then began to treat the apartment and its contents as her own,” said McGunnigle.

For two days, Afet returned to the apartment multiple times, sometimes bringing others into the apartment, before she locked herself out.

McGunnigle said while interviewing the people, no one reported seeing Tuori. That’s because Afet put her in a bedroom and closed the door.

“Asphyxiation is the cold clinical term for how Connie died. We need to ignore that sterile description and focus on the brutal, sadistic nature of what Ms. After actually did,” said Tuori’s nephew, Tom Tuori.

Tuori’s family only learned Thursday that Tuori might have suffered for an hour before dying. They said Afet also stole Tuori’s purse, clothing and a suitcase with her belongings.

“She won’t tell us what really happened, and without her testimony, the evidence is not perfectly clear on how exactly she murdered Connie,” said Tom Tuori.

Afet’s will serve three consecutive sentences on three indictments, including the death of Tuori, a robbery of another elderly woman at Skyline Apartments only a week before the murder, and a 2020 stabbing.

During his impact statement, Tom Tuori said there’s only one way for justice to be served.

“I hope and my family hopes that Ms. Afet is haunted by the last few minutes of our aunt’s life. Connie deserves that, and Ms. Afet deserves to spend the rest of her life in prison,” he said.

As a result of the plea agreement, Afet will come before a parole board in roughly 30 years.

Afet’s lawyer, Susan Carey, said the plea spared the family of a painful trial, and Afet’s family is full of sorrow.

“They’re sorry this happened. They’re sorry their daughter was involved. They feel badly for Ms. Tuori’s family. They’re in shock,” said Carey.

But Tuori’s family said the damage is already done.

“I think her saying she did this to spare us from hearing the details is patently wrong. She did it to spare her parents and to spare the community to hear what actually went on,” said Owen Tuori.