GETTYSBURG, Pa. (AP) - A Pennsylvania man has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole in the beating death of his roommate last year.
PennLive.com reports that 46-year-old Walter Smith Jr. of Hanover was sentenced Monday in Adams County Court on December convictions of first- and third-degree murder.
Prosecutors said he attacked 44-year-old Mitchell Jones with a ceramic water pitcher in their Conewago Township apartment in June 2016 after the two were drinking and smoking crack together.
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Smith told police that Jones had tried to stab him with a screwdriver. Jones was found in an upstairs bedroom with serious head injuries and a black plastic bag over his head.
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Information from: Pennlive.com, http://www.pennlive.com
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