A Sedgwick County judge on Friday ordered a Wichita man to serve more than 56 years in prison for killing a couple during a drug-fueled argument at an east-side motel last year.
John A. Griffin III, 22, entered an Alford plea in October to second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter in the shooting deaths of 35-year-old Christopher Harrell and 35-year-old Natisha Phillips at the Blue Way Inn & Suites, 7321 E. Kellogg Drive in Wichita.
He was also convicted of two counts of aggravated battery for harm caused to two other people, according to a news release from the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office…