Cooke Sentenced  'Matrix' defendant receives 40 years in jail.
Joshua Cooke's mother Margaret Cooke was looking at her son
while he aimed a shot gun at her face.  Joshua Cooke's father
was shot by his son seven times in their basement, as Paul Cooke
talked on the phone with his daughter Tiffany, who was at
college in Pennsylvania.  He lived through the first few shots
before he died.  "It is hard to imagine a more brutal killing,"
said Commonwealth’s Attorney Robert F. Horan Jr., during Joshua
Cooke's sentencing today, Wednesday, Oct. 1.  "She was looking
at him while he was aiming that shot gun in her face," Horan
said.  Cooke’s defenders told the court that the case was a
“tragedy.” "I guess that is true, true for a lot of people,"
Horan said. "It is a tragedy for the relatives, it is a tragedy
for the defendant. But in addition to that, It is a brutality.
We say brutal with a capital 'B.'"  Joshua Cooke, of Oakton, was
sentenced to 40 years in jail for the Feb. 17 murders of his
adoptive parents, Margaret