LONGVIEW, Texas (KETK) – A man from New Orleans has been sentenced to 35 years in prison for the murder of 44-year-old Joseph Pierre Brice on Mobberly Avenue in Longview in 2020.
Brice was fatally shot while in the 1700 block of Mobberly Avenue at around 3 p.m. on Feb. 29 of 2020. Several months later, on Sept. 28 of 2020, Aaron Williams, 41 of New Orleans, was arrested for Brice’s murder.
His case was set to go to trial on Oct. 13, but on Friday, Williams pleaded guilty to murder before Gregg County 188th District Court Judge J. Scott Novy.
Williams, who’s been in the Gregg County Jail for five years since his 2020 arrest, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Friday…