By Associated Press - Saturday, September 14, 2019

RENO, Nev. (AP) - A man convicted of murder in a 2017 Reno killing has been sentenced to life in prison.

The District Attorney’s Office announced Friday that a judge sentenced Dontay Thor Sevier to life in prison without the possibility of parole on his murder conviction plus 20 years for a deadly weapon enhancement.

Sevier was returned to Nevada in early 2018 from Tempe, Arizona, to face charges in the death of 26-year-old Vidal Smith.



Smith was found dead on a downtown Reno street on Aug. 31, 2017.

A jury convicted Sevier in June after a weeklong trial.

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