ST. LOUIS, Mo. (First Alert 4) – A Bellefontaine Neighbors man was sentenced Thursday in the 2023 killing of a man outside of a convenience store.
According to the St. Louis City Circuit Court, 27-year-old Richard E. Sanders Jr. pleaded guilty to one count of involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the killing of 63-year-old Lorenzo Thomas.
Sanders was accused of punching Thomas in the head on July 19, 2023, causing him to fall and hit his head on the pavement outside of a convenience store at the intersection of North Euclid Avenue and Hammett Place…