LAWRENCE COUNTY, Mo. — A Lawrence County man will spend the rest of his life in prison for shooting and killing a man last year.
Thursday morning, a judge sentenced Austin Stone, 24, of Billings to two life sentences without parole plus 25 years. Back in May, a jury convicted Stone of first-degree murder, armed criminal action and unlawful use of a weapon.
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In March of last year, Lawrence County deputies responded to a rural area southeast of Aurora and that’s where they found Joshua Snider dead in the road from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Witnesses say Stone approached Snider’s vehicle and shot him then left the area before police arrived…