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A woman named Jennifer was smoking a cigarette in her car, trying to stay warm during her lunch break outside a health care facility where she worked in Avon Park, Florida, in February 2022.

What happened next, she later recalled, would change her life "drastically for the worst."

"The next thing I know, you're standing [by] my driver's seat with a gun pointed at me asking for my keys, my phone and money, and threatening to shoot me if I didn't give it to you," Jennifer said as she addressed her assailant, Artavis Spivey, in court during his sentencing hearing last November. "Because of your selfish actions that day, I was left to deal with the consequences."