A Perkiomen Township man will spend the rest of his life in prison following a conviction last week in the death of a Douglass Township woman. A Montgomery County Common Pleas jury found Nicholas Forman, 24, of Hamilton Road, guilty of first degree murder in the death of Sabrina Harooni.

            The jury issued its verdict Aug. 19 at the end of a four-day trial before Judge William R. Carpenter. The judge imposed the sentence the same day. Forman began serving it Monday.

            Prosecutors convinced the jury that Forman killed Harooni, 23, at his residence on Feb. 3, 2020 after the two returned home from a bar where they watched the Super Bowl at a bar/restaurant in Oaks. A joint investigation into the death by the Montgomery County Detective Bureau and the Pennsylvania State Police determined the assault occurred at the home, according to a news release provided last year by the office of the Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele.

            Detectives recovered a video of an injured and unresponsive Harooni on the defendant's phone, which included audio of a male's voice saying, in part, "This is what a cheating liar gets," according to the police criminal complaint filed in the Franconia court of District Judge Albert Augustine.

           At 11:28 a.m. on Mon, Feb. 3, Pottstown Borough Police responded to Pottstown Hospital regarding a female assault victim with life-threatening injuries. The victim arrived at the hospital in an Uber with the defendant and was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

            During a voluntary interview on Feb. 3, Forman allegedly claimed that the girl suffered injuries from a physical altercation with three females who emerged from a black SUV sometime after 12:30 a.m. in the 900 block of Hamilton Road.

            According to court records, Forman mentioned Harooni telling him about a verbal dispute in the bathroom at the bar with another female. He was unsure how this female obtained his address, only that Harooni must have given her the address.

            He told police that the altercation, which started as an argument, moved to the area of Hamilton Road and Greene Boulevard. The man said he went inside after the argument started because he is on probation.

            Forman claimed that after the girls returned to the SUV and left the neighborhood, he picked up Harooni and carried her inside the residence to the second-floor bedroom, placing her on the floor to move bed covers, then placing her in bed.

            He told police that she was breathing and had a pulse throughout the night and that he continually checked on her. Neighbors interviewed by law enforcement officials said they did not observe an altercation between females in the street or a dark sport utility vehicle during the overnight hours of Feb. 2, 2020 into Feb. 3, 2020, according to court documents.

            Forman allegedly told police Harooni was breathing the next morning when he woke up at 8:45 a.m. to take a shower and go to a court hearing in Limerick. When he returned around 10 a.m. and checked on the woman, he called for an Uber to take her to the hospital due to her unresponsiveness.

            This information is not consistent with information provided by the hospital staff, who indicated that Harooni was cold to the touch and had a low body temperature upon arrival at the hospital, according to the legal paperwork.

            County detectives arrested Forman Feb. 7, 2020 and charged him with felony first- and third-degree murder. Steele's office chose not to pursue the third-degree charge, according to the docket posted on the legal website.