Man sentenced to life for 2023 Mansfield murder

MANSFIELD, Mass. (WPR) — A Kingston, Massachusetts, man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his roommate in Mansfield more than three years ago.

William O’Brien, 25, pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court on Sept. 10 to charges of second-degree murder and possession of a large-capacity firearm and ammunition in the deadly shooting of 23-year-old Samuel Waters.

Police responded to a West Church Street home on May 20, 2023, just after 11 a.m. Officers found Waters at the bottom of a staircase suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the head…

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