EL DORADO (AP) – A Butler County man was sentenced to life in prison for strangling his grandmother at her home in December 2011.

KAKE-TV 10 reports that 20-year-old Jacob Allen Hoyt was sentenced Friday for killing his 69-year-old grandmother, Loyce Cody, in her Augusta home. He will be eligible for parole in 20 years.

Prosecutors say Hoyt and his girlfriend, 20-year-old Lyndsey Giovinazzo, killed Cody by while burglarizing her home. They took the preschool teacher’s car, debit cards and candy and were arrested a short time later after a chase through Butler and Cowley counties.

Giovinazzo pleaded guilty last July to first-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.

Both Giovinazzo and Hoyt were 19 years old when they were arrested.