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Shane Jaggarnauth was sentenced to life in prison without parole for the September 2011 shooting deaths of his parents in Queens, in what prosecutors said was a robbery he arranged and then tried to pass off as a home invasion.

Jaggarnauth was convicted of first-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon in the deaths of his father, Sugrim Jaggarnauth, 64, and his mother, Rosie Jaggarnauth, 56, at their home on Grayson Street in the Springfield Gardens section of Queens. A jury returned the verdict after deliberating less than four hours, according to QNS.

Police were called to the house around 4 a.m. on Sept. 2, 2011. Prosecutors said Jaggarnauth, then 23, and an accomplice went into the couple's bedroom while they slept. Sugrim Jaggarnauth was shot in the forehead at close range. Rosie Jaggarnauth, also shot in the head, reached a telephone and called 911, then was struck by three more bullets and died while still on the line.

An operator testified that the gunfire could be heard on the recording. "I heard the shots myself," the operator said, according to CBS 2, which obtained the 911 audio.

About four minutes after his mother's call, Jaggarnauth made his own 911 call, saying he had been shot and that his parents were dead, according to CBS 2. He was treated for a wound to his left shoulder that was not life-threatening. Prosecutors said he had the accomplice shoot him so the killings would look like a botched push-in robbery.

At trial, prosecutors said Jaggarnauth had been cut off financially and that his mother had discovered he was taking money from her bank account. He pleaded not guilty and maintained that intruders were responsible. Justice Gregory Lasak of state Supreme Court in Queens imposed the sentence in July 2014, when Jaggarnauth was 26.