A 22-year-old man involved in the "heinous" 2005 kidnapping of a Mount Joy family laughed at his victims Wednesday before he was removed from a Lancaster County courtroom and sentenced to at least 20½ years in state prison.

Anthony Marcus Davis, one of three co-conspirators in the kidnapping, also mocked Lancaster County Judge David Ashworth and first assistant District Attorney Christopher Larsen before asking to be taken out of his own sentencing.

Ashworth then relayed the 20½- to 41-year prison sentence to defense attorney Cory Miller as deputy sheriffs walked Davis to a holding cell.

Davis, of Harrisburg, pleaded guilty in October to helping Raymond Gaines and Amber Griggs kidnap David and Patricia Westervelt and their 12-year-old son, Chad Coble.

David Westervelt was able to escape as he was being forced into a car but was shot in the back as he fled.

Gaines was charged with attempted murder for shooting Westervelt and sentenced last year to 24 to 50 years in state prison. Griggs' case is pending.

Patricia Westervelt escaped by jumping out of a speeding minivan on a busy highway near Harrisburg.

David and Patricia Westervelt were seriously hurt and still undergo treatment for their injuries.

The kidnappers released Coble, unharmed, in Carlisle.

Investigators have said the kidnapping scheme involved a plot to obtain the key to the Dauphin County bank where Mrs. Westervelt worked.

After declining to speak at Ashworth's request, Davis made several outbursts Wednesday as David and Patricia Westervelt addressed the court.

Initially, Davis rolled his eyes and raised his eyebrows as Patricia Westervelt read from a prepared statement.

In the early morning of Oct. 3, 2005, Westervelt said, "the scene out of a horror movie happened."

She described the break-in and ensuing kidnapping.

"I remember thinking my life has changed forever and is going to end," Westervelt said.

After jumping from the van, Westervelt said, she remembered the trucker helping her on the shoulder of Route 283 near Harrisburg.

She sustained permanent brain damage in the jump from the van.

"I don't know what justice would be in this case," she told Ashworth.

She suggested death as an appropriate punishment, causing Davis to chuckle.

Westervelt repeated herself.

"I heard you," Davis snapped back.

After the Westervelts addressed the court, Larsen reprimanded Davis for his "disinterest" in the victims' well-being.

"He thinks this is a joke," Larsen said. "When he walks out of here today, he will not think it's a joke."

Davis then blew a kiss to Larsen, who asked the gesture be put on record.

Later, Davis interrupted Ashworth as the judge read a list of his prior arrests.

"I know what I did. Can you just sentence me?" Davis said. "I don't want to be here. Take me out."

Ashworth twice asked Davis, "Do you want to be present?"

Davis told the judge, "Adios. I don't want to look at you no more."

Davis and Gaines entered the Westervelt home in the 100 block of South Barbara Street through an unlocked kitchen window, police said.

Coble, who was sleeping on a first-floor couch, was awakened by one of the men and ordered outside at gunpoint. He was put into the trunk of a stolen car and driven away.

Next, a gunman walked David Westervelt out of the home. He got away and was shot as he ran down an alley.

Then, Patricia Westervelt said, "they came in for me."

Wearing a sleeping gown, she was ordered into her own minivan and driven off.

"This crime is every law-abiding person's nightmare," Ashworth said, calling the incident "cold, calculated and deliberate."

"Other than killing someone, I can think of fewer crimes more heinous and despicable," the judge said.

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