Man sentenced in 2018 Pontotoc County homicide

ADA, Okla. (KXII) – A nearly eight-year wait for justice ended Friday when a Byng man was sentenced to 20 years in connection with a 2018 murder that remained unprosecuted for six years.

Zachery Perkins, 28, entered a plea of no contest before District Court Judge Steve Kessinger and was convicted of second-degree murder in the death of Jonathon Pinon.

The court sentenced Perkins to serve five years in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections, with 15 years suspended…

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