UPDATE: Sobbing Christopher Hearn Sentenced to 48-90 Years in Stabbing Death of Ranae Chupick

Update, 2:10 p.m.: Begging his victim's family for forgiveness, 24-year-old Christopher Hearn was sentenced Wednesday to 48-90 years in prison for the.

Before Oakland County Chief Circuit Judge Nanci Grant sentenced Hearn, the Clinton Township man asked the judge if he could turn and address the family of Ranae Chupick, who was 41 years old at the time of her death. in her Rochester Road apartment.

In tears, Hearn told Chupick’s mother, Sheila Adams, and only sibling, Julie Powers, both of whom were seated in the Pontiac courtroom, that he only remembered bits and pieces of the events of the night of Sept. 18-19. On that night, , according to preliminary exam testimony.

“I hope one day you can forgive me,” an emotional Hearn pleaded. “I am not a monster.”

Hearn has been in contact with the criminal justice system since he was 14 years old, records show. His attorney, Stephen Lynch, told the court Hearn was abused as a child and placed into foster care. Hearn’s adoptive parents sat quietly in the back of the courtroom and watched their son beg for the Chupick family’s forgiveness.

Not in court today was . Hearn said he hoped Jacob could forgive him one day for taking his mother.

When addressing Judge Grant, Hearn said over and over that he did not seek out Chupick that September night and that once he arrived to her apartment “one thing led to another and now we are all here.”

“If I was sober and in my right mind, this would have never happened,” said Hearn, who had earlier pleaded no contest to second-degree murder.

Grant was visibly moved. “I don’t recall any defendant in a murder case who ever expressed the remorse you expressed,” the judge said.

During the sentencing, Assistant Prosecutor Jason Pernick offered Grant photos of the crime scene. Hearn hung his head low, while Pernick described and Grant reviewed photos that showed excessive brutality — blood-spattered walls, blood-stained carpeting, injuries to Chupick’s face, lacerations on her throat and stab wounds on the victim’s side that penetrated her heart.

The judge asked family members for a “life” photo for comparison. After looking at a photograph of the 5-foot 100-pound woman, who friends said took good care of her self, Grant said it was hard to believe the woman in the prosecutor’s photographs and the family picture were the same person.

“You butchered her, whether you remember it or not,” Grant told Hearn. The judge also reminded Hearn that when he said “one thing led to another and we are all here” that someone is not here.

“Ranae is not here,” Judge Grant stressed.

Update, 12:40 p.m.: Christopher Hearn, 24, was sentenced to 48-90 years in prison in Oakland County Circuit Court today for the slaying of his on-off girlfriend Ranae Chupick in her Royal Oak apartment Sept. 19. More details to come.

5 a.m. Wednesday: An ex-boyfriend faces sentencing this morning after pleading no contest to second-degree murder of 41-year-old Ranae Chupick of Royal Oak.

Oakland County Chief Circuit Judge Nanci Grant is set this morning to sentence 24-year-old Christopher Michael Hearn, of Clinton Township, after he to charges that he stabbed Chupick, with whom he had an on-and-off relationship. Sept. 19 inside in her second-floor apartment on Rochester Road north of 13 Mile. The apartment showed signs of a struggle, and Chupick was found partially nude, beaten and stabbed at least 12 times.

A no contest plea is treated as a guilty plea. The sentence range is 22-56 years in prison, which means Hearn could be paroled one day.

Hearn had been charged with open murder, which encompasses first- and second-degree murder. Hearn's attorney, Steven Lynch, told the court his client was intoxicated at the time of the slaying.

Hearn was of Kevin Kaminske after law enforcement officials received a tip from Kaminske that Hearn admitted he had killed Chupick, with whom he worked with at the in Royal Oak.

Kaminske said Hearn told him he had gone there for a sexual encounter, and that the two had been drinking when they began to argue.