Nearly five years after a roommate walked into an East Village apartment and found a man fatally wounded, a Long Beach resident has been ordered to spend 32 years in state prison for the 2021 killing.
Peter Andrew Hairston, 49, entered a no-contest plea to voluntary manslaughter earlier this month and was sentenced this week in a Long Beach courtroom. The case dates back to February 2021, when first responders were called to a downtown apartment where a man had been shot and later died.
Hairston pleaded no contest on Jan. 15 and received a 32-year state prison term, according to the Press-Telegram. Prosecutors told the court they believed Hairston’s actions during the incident amounted to “a psychotic episode,” the newspaper reported…