By Associated Press - Friday, April 24, 2015

WASHINGTON (AP) - A man has been sentenced to 24½ years in prison for killing his girlfriend in their D.C. apartment.

Fifty-two-year-old Kevin McDarrin Johnson was sentenced Friday in Superior Court in Washington for strangling 48-year-old Detra Martin. He had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder.

Prosecutors say on Feb. 20, 2014, Johnson strangled Martin in their bedroom.

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