A man has pleaded guilty to charges in connection to a 2017 shooting incident in Breckinridge County.
Christopher Lee Stone of Irvington entered a plea in Breckinridge Circuit Court to a count of reckless homicide in connection to the shooting death of Nicholas Lee Ford of Brandenburg.
According to a Kentucky State Police statement at the time, the two men were deer hunting off of J.E. Haynes Road on Thanksgiving Day (11/23) 2017, when Stone discharged his rifle into an overgrown field surrounded by woods where Ford was standing, striking him in the back. Ford was transported by Breck Central EMS to Breckinridge Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced deceased by the Breckinridge County Coroner.
A grand jury indicted Stone on a murder charge in May of 2018.
A trial began Monday, with Stone entering the plea on Wednesday.
He was sentenced to five years in prison, probated for five, according to the Circuit Court Clerk’s office.
Source: WXBC
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