Man sentenced to life in prison in brother’s death

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) - An Independence man was sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to killing his brother.

Forty-nine-year-old David L. Womack pleaded guilty and was sentenced Wednesday in the death of 58-year-old Bill Womack outside their mother’s home in Carollton in January 2011.

David Womack pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and armed criminal action. He had been scheduled for trial on June 27. The case was transferred from Carroll County to Ray County.

The Independence Examiner reports (https://bit.ly/1jDYPRe ) Bill Womack was checking on the men’s mother when he was shot. He had been upset about David’s alleged domestic violence against his girlfriend before the shooting.

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Information from: The Examiner, https://www.examiner.net