A man accused in an 11-year-old murder case was sentenced to 12 years in prison Monday morning.
A judge sentenced Joshua Abnee to the recommended sentence of 12 years in the murder of David Sadler, who was found by family members with a single gunshot wound inside their Nicholas County home in 2003.
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Abnee had pleaded guilty to facilitation of murder and complicity to robbery in the second degree in August. He also agreed to testify against co-defendant Shawn Fryman.
Abnee will serve five years for one count, and seven for the other, consecutively.
Abnee was arrested in March, 11 years after the murder. Fryman was arrested in February and the Carlisle Mercury reported in July the death penalty could be sought against Fryman.
Sadler’s wife, Brenda, said both suspects were considered friends of her husband. She and her son found David Sadler dead from a single gunshot wound inside their home on March 31, 2003.
