Black Gets 5 Year Prison Sentence for Killing White Man While Drunk

NBC 29
November 1, 2015

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Joseph Bickers was beaten so badly, that he died just a few days later.

A Staunton man charged in a Waynesboro death will spend the next five years in prison.

Wednesday, a Waynesboro judge sentenced 54-year-old Andrew Lewis Watkins Jr. to 10 years in prison, but with half of that time suspended.

Watkins had been found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in June.

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Andrew Lewis Watkins Jr. had his 10 year sentence halved, by the judge.

Authorities say the crime happened on July 28, 2014 when Watkins hit 52-year-old Joseph Bickers in the head at a home in the 1200 block of Wine Avenue.

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