Boone County man pleads guilty to voluntary manslaughter for June 2019 shooting
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
A Boone County man entered a guilty plea last week for a June 2019 shooting and a judge sentenced him to 12 years in a Missouri prison.
Derrick Petty pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action on Oct. 23. Petty will serve 12 years for the crime. Judge Brouck Jacobs sentenced him to 12 years in prison for the manslaughter charge and three years for armed criminal action, with those sentences running at the same time.
Petty was originally charged with second-degree murder for the shooting death of David Lee Morgan. Prosecutors reduced that charge to manslaughter and dropped a first-degree assault charge against Petty as part of the plea.
Columbia police responded to a residence on the 1500 block of Tupelo Place around 8:30 p.m. in response to a verbal disturbance with a gun.
Officials say Morgan was pronounced dead at the scene.
During the investigation, officers were told Derrick Petty, 30, shot and killed Morgan after a fight with Morgan and another victim, according to court documents.
Court documents report the defendant is given credit for time served in jail, which began on July 1, 2019.
Two other men, Cortez Brimmage and Dontrez Jones, are also charged in Morgan's killing. Jones pleaded guilty this summer to third-degree assault and is yet to be sentenced. Brimmage has a hearing scheduled for Friday.
