Pine Bluff Man Pleads Guilty to Murder
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A Pine Bluff man was sentenced today to 25
years in prison for robbery and murder convictions in the shooting
death of another man.
Circuit Judge H-A- Taylor imposed a sentence of 25 years in
prison on each of three convictions after Chico Russell pleaded
guilty to second-degree murder, aggravated robbery, and being a
felon in possession of a firearm. The judge made the sentences
concurrent.
The 26-year-old Russell admitted to the May eleventh shooting
death of 27-year-old Sampson Harris at an apartment complex in Pine
Bluff. Russell had been out on parole for just two months when the
shooting occurred.
Russell originally was charged with first-degree murder and
three counts of aggravated robbery, along with the weapons charge.
He pleaded guilty to the lesser offenses as part of a plea
agreement with prosecutors.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
