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FAYETTEVILLE -- A man pleaded guilty Thursday to stabbing to death a man described as a good Samaritan. Cantrell Graydon stabbed David Allen , 25, at least 10 times early Oct . 24, 2015 at the Stadium Apartments, 1069 Olympic Place. Allen died later at a hospital. Graydon was arrested later on the day of the stabbing. He was charged with capital murder. The 33-year-old Fayetteville man stood before Washington County Circuit Judge Mark Lindsay in a nearly empty courtroom and pleaded guilty in a deal with prosecutors. [ EMAIL UPDATES : Get free breaking news updates and daily newsletters with top headlines delivered to your inbox] In exchange for his plea, Graydon was sentenced to 35 years at the Arkansas Department of Correction. He will have to serve about 24 years or 70 percent of his sentence, before becoming eligible for parole. He was given credit for 662 days of jail time served . First-degree murder is punishable by 10 to 40 years or life in prison. Capital murder is punis...

CLOSE Do you know what to do if you see something bad happening? Here are some tips. Keri Hensley/USA TODAY NETWORK Wochit Alan Rodriguez (Photo: Courtesy El Paso Police Department ) A five- decade prison sentence was handed down last week to a man who pleaded guilty to robbing and killing another man during a drug-deal gone wrong. Alan Rodriguez , who was 20 years old at the time of the shooting, was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Aug. 8 after he pleaded guilty to murder in connection with the death of Frank Christopher Hernandez , according to court records. He was originally charged with capital murder, but pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of murder as part of a plea agreement with state prosecutors, according to court documents. 2016: Man arrested in fatal drug-robbery shooting Rodriguez allegedly shot Hernandez, 30, at about 1:50 a.m. Sept. 21 at the victim’s apartment in the 4500 block of Lawrence Avenue in the Angel's Triangle area, according to El Paso Police Depa...

A Jacksonville police officer shot a man multiple times Sunday morning after, Sheriff’s Office officials said, he took the officer’s Taser during a struggle and pointed it at the officer. The shooting followed a foot chase that began when police responded to a 911 call reporting a domestic dispute, heard a woman screaming and discovered a woman being strangled by a man on top of her inside an apartment at the Cleveland Arms apartment complex about 8:45 a.m. Devanta DeJuan Jones , 22, was shot at least four times by Officer Cliff Sames of the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The shooting happened after Sames and another officer tried unsuccessfully to stun the man, later identified as Jones, three times with their Tasers during the pursuit in which Jones kicked in the door, then ran through a neighboring apartment occupied by a mother and three children. Jones also tried but failed to force his way inside two other apartments during the foot chase, said Director Tom Hackney of the S...