CLEVELAND -- A man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for his part in a shooting at a west side deli that left a clerk and a young mother dead.

Sean Rembert was sentenced on Wednesday to two life sentenced without the possibility of parole for the December 2004 slayings of Jorge Santiago and Rebecca Cordoves at Tony's Deli.

The 32-year-old had nothing to say during the sentencing, but his attorney said that his client was grateful that the jury decided to spare his life.

"Mr. Rembert is very thankful that the jury decided to give him life without parole as opposed to the other option, and he's prepared to go ahead and serve his sentence," said William Doyle.

During the sentencing hearing, Rembert listened to a letter written by Cordoves' husband, Francisco. His 21-year-old wife had stopped in the deli that night to buy formula for the couple's newborn baby.

"I cannot explain the desperation and the pain," the letter said. "Now I have to be a mother, he responsibility of being a mother and a father."

Rembert also had to listen to the mother-in-law of Santiago, the clerk that Rembert gunned down that night.

"The person responsible for Georgie's death deserves what he gets, a lonely life in prison, because in prison, there is no one to care for, to baby you, to love you," said Kim Santiago.

The prosecution felt the jury gave Rembert life over death because there was some question in their mind over who the true shooter was.

Aside from that, prosecutors are satisfied with the fact that Rembert will never see the outside of a prison again.

In all, there were six men involved in the robbery that ended in the fatal shooting. Three others await sentencing for lesser charges.

William Marshall is serving a life sentence, and suspect John Williams is awaiting trial.