AUGUSTA,(AP) – Two brothers were sentenced Friday to a combined 72 years in prison for the fatal shooting of a New Hampshire man during a botched robbery at a rest stop in Yarmouth.

Ryan Hopkins, 23, was sentenced in Kennebec County Superior Court to 42 years for murder, with concurrent lesser sentences for robbery, probation violation and a federal charge of possession of a firearm by a felon, according to Assistant Attorney General William Stokes.

Shawn Hopkins, 29, was sentenced to 30 years for felony murder with concurrent lesser sentences for robbery, probation violation and possession of a firearm by a felon.

Ryan Hopkins got a longer sentence because he was the triggerman, Stokes said.

The sentencing was part of a plea agreement in which the brothers pleaded guilty to in May to the May 2004 murder of Julius Petrovic of Bretton Woods, N.H. The 60-year-old hotel maitre d’ was shot in broad daylight through the window of his parked SUV in the parking lot of a rest area off Interstate 295.

Prosecutors alleged that the brothers were attempting to rob Petrovic when Ryan Hopkins shot him in the chest with a .40-caliber Glock pistol. Police said the brothers were drug abusers who had lengthy criminal records.

The brothers were arrested five days after the shooting.

Assuming time off for good behavior, Ryan Hopkins could be out of prison in 35 years, when he is 58, Stokes said. Shawn Hopkins could be out in 24 years, when he is 53.

Five people spoke on behalf of Petrovic, including the owner of the Spruce Point Inn in Boothbay Harbor where he worked. Petrovic worked at hotels from Maine to Florida, and for more than a decade was the maitre d’ at Spruce Point Inn.

“He was very well-loved by everyone who knew him,” Stokes said.

Nobody showed up in court on behalf of the Hopkins brothers.

“That was a sad commentary,” Stokes said. “Nobody bothered to show up.”