YELLVILLE, Ark. (AP) - A jury in northern Arkansas has convicted a Yellville man for last year’s shooting deaths of his uncle and grandfather.
Prosecutors had charged Donald Steven Beckwith Jr. with first-degree murder for the Sept. 1 deaths of his uncle, David DeWayne White, and his grandfather, William Henry White. But a jury on Wednesday convicted Beckwith of manslaughter and second-degree murder instead.
The Baxter Bulletin reports that Beckwith was sentenced to 35 years in prison.
Beckwith had told police that he shot his uncle after a fight and that he accidentally shot his grandfather, who had tried to intervene.
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Information from: The Baxter Bulletin, http://www.baxterbulletin.com
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