BENTON, La. — A Bossier City man who killed a customer over a watermelon dispute was sentenced to prison Wednesday morning in Bossier District Court.
District Judge Charles Smith sentenced Colton Matthews, 29, to 28 years in the shooting death of Joe Williams Jr., 65, on July 24, 2020.
A Bossier Parish jury convicted Matthews in October of manslaughter. He faced up to 40 years in prison…