ORLANDO, Fla. — Sarah Boone is set to be sentenced on Monday, after a jury found her guilty of second-degree murder in October.

Boone had been charged in connection with the 2020 death of Jorge Torres Jr. She was accused of zipping him up in a suitcase and leaving him to suffocate.

According to a 2020 arrest affidavit, Boone told Orange County deputies that Torres got into the suitcase when they were playing hide-and-seek. She said they both had consumed a lot of alcohol, and she fell asleep. She said she later found Torres unresponsive and called 911.

She later told authorities said that Torres climbed into the suitcase himself, she fell asleep and then later found him unresponsive.

Her sentencing beings at 1:30 p.m. and Boone faces up to life in prison.