A Leesburg man will spend the rest of his life in prison as the result of a 2021 baseball bat attack that killed his co-worker.
Steve Tilbury has been sentenced after being found guilty by a jury in Volusia County.
On Nov. 23, 2021, Tilbury drove up to the maintenance department at the Daytona Beach car dealership where he worked. When he got out of his vehicle, he grabbed a metal bat, walked into the maintenance bay and then came up from behind one of his co-workers, who was sitting at a desk doing paperwork, and struck him in the head with the bat.
Tilbury was 29 years old on the day of the fatal attack.
The victim died from the blunt force injury at the hospital a week later.
“For his murderous rage, the defendant deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison,” State Attorney R.J. Larizza said about this case.