Robert Coleman

A man who punched a woman once, killing her after they clashed inside a Northern Virginia convenience store, has been sentenced to spend the next decade behind bars.

A man was sentenced Thursday to 10 years in prison for punching a woman once, killing her. Robert Coleman punched Fidelia Montiel-Benitez outside a 7-Eleven store in Alexandria last summer. News4’s Julie Carey has the story.

On a hot, seemingly ordinary night last summer, a man and a woman each walked into a convenience store in Northern Virginia. Minutes later, the man would punch the woman once, killing her after he claims she used a racial slur against him during their brief encounter inside the store.

Surveillance video obtained exclusively by News4 shows a confrontation between a man and woman at a Virginia convenience store that ended with a single punch that killed her.

A woman has died after she was attacked outside a convenience store in Alexandria, Virginia, and a man has been charged, police say.