WOODSTOCK, Ga. – A 27-year-old Forsyth man has been sentenced to life in prison after pleading guilty to fatally stabbing his roommate nearly 20 times inside a Woodstock apartment in 2024.
Cherokee County District Attorney Susan K. Treadaway announced that Triston James Sexton entered a negotiated guilty plea on July 15 to malice murder and possession of a knife during the commission of a felony in the death of 55-year-old David Courtney Phelps of Atlanta.
According to prosecutors, Woodstock police responded shortly after 4 a.m. on Sept. 19, 2024, to a reported stabbing at the Avonlea Apartments in the Towne Lake area…