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Upstate man pleads to voluntary manslaughter in death
Posted: 09.08.2010 at 11:50 AM
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The Greenville News reported 53-year-old Wyatt Earl Harper was sentenced after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter Tuesday in the 2008 shooting death of Bernard Oglesby of Anderson County.   / FOX Carolina
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GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) -- A man has been sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty in the shooting death of another man two years ago.

The Greenville News reported 53-year-old Wyatt Earl Harper was sentenced after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter Tuesday in the 2008 shooting death of Bernard Oglesby of Anderson County.

Prosecutor Lucas Marchant says Oglesby had asked gone to a house in Greenville County to ask Harper to loan him money to buy drugs. Marchant says Harper was fed up with Oglesby and shot him.

Harper originally had been charged with murder before agreeing to the plea deal.

(Copyright 2010 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)
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