A Boise man stabbed roommate to death. Judge cites defendant’s past during sentencing
The Boise man who killed his roommate in a home on the Central Bench last year might spend the rest of his life in prison.
In August 2022, officers responded to calls to a South Orchard Street home near West Franklin Road, according to previous Idaho Statesman reporting. They found Brian Hamblet, 42, with severe stab wounds in his chest, and Hamblet died at the scene, according to the Boise Police Department.
Jorge Lossi, now 40, was arrested and eventually pleaded guilty to second-degree murder as part of a plea deal with the Ada County Prosecutor’s Office last month, according to court records.
Ada County 4th District Judge Derrick O’Neill sentenced Lossi to 25 years in prison before he is eligible for parole, a news release from the prosecutor’s office said.
O’Neill said he believed efforts to rehabilitate the defendant had been “exhausted.” Lossi was on parole at the time of the murder, and prosecutors said he has an “extensive criminal history dating back to 2006.”
In 2015, Lossi pleaded guilty to a felony charge of assault or battery upon certain personnel. He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in state prison, according to previous Statesman reporting. In 2017, while serving his prison sentence, Lossi pleaded guilty to a felony charge of battery against a present or past official, judge, officer, jailer or correctional employee, court records show.
A separate felony charge of battery against health care workers was dismissed, and Lossi was sentenced to another 18 months in prison.
“This sentence provides protection to the community, as the defendant has continually resorted to violence while incarcerated and while living in the community,” Ada County Prosecutor Jan Bennetts said in a news release.
