Man pleads guilty to ‘brutal’ attack of veteran, 93, who died months later

A 93-year-old military veteran died several months after he was attacked and robbed in a DeKalb County pharmacy parking lot in 2022.

Now his attacker, 62-year-old Samuel Willie Harvey, will spend more than a decade in prison, the DeKalb District Attorney’s Office announced this week.

Harvey pleaded guilty April 4 to charges of abuse of an elder person, robbery by force and obstruction of law enforcement officers, officials confirmed. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison, plus an additional five years on probation, in the July 25, 2022, incident outside a CVS Pharmacy on Candler Road…

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