VAMPIRE KILLER DRANK BLOOD FROM PLASTIC CUP

A VAMPIRE who battered his roommate to death and then drank his victims blood from a plastic cup has been sentenced to 20-years behind bars.  
Mauricio Mendez Lopez, 42, murdered Macario Cruz because he disapproved of a steamy relationship between him and his niece Mariella. 
After striking Cruz, 32, with an iron bar he'd chased them with a knife, threatening them with death if they didn't end it.
But the passion between the pair was too strong and when Lopez found out he repeatedly stabbed Cruz in a mad rage.    
Scooping some of his blood into a cup he then drank it.
He later claimed that there is a ritual in his native Mexico where a person drinks a victim's blood to evade law enforcement.
 The Gods clearly weren't with him however and authorities quickly caught up
with him. 
As part of a plea deal with prosecutors, he pleaded no contest Wednesday to second-degree murder, aggravated battery with a deadly weapon and robbery with a deadly weapon.