BOTETOURT COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ) – A man has been sentenced to prison for the death of a 5-year-old boy in 2023.
Zachary Alan Bishop was sentenced on a charge of felony murder August 12, 2025 in Botetourt County Circuit Court to 40 years, suspended after 15 years. He was given five years of supervised probation upon his release from incarceration and will be required to be of good behavior for 40 years. The court also ordered that he have no unsupervised contact with minors.
Bishop, 33, had been indicted by a grand jury on charges of felony child endangerment and murder…