CONWAY, SC (WBTW) – A Conway man will spend the next 15 years in prison for killing another man at a Carolina Forest apartment complex in 2014.
Fifteenth Circuit Solicitor Jimmy Richardson says Akeem Akbar Young, 40, of Conway, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter under an Alford plea on Tuesday.
Young was sentenced to 15 years in prison, said Nancy Livesay, violent crimes assistant solicitor.
Young, who was scheduled to go to trial the week of March 12, was charged with murder and accessory in June 2014 for the shooting death of Antonio Dexter Smith at the Canterbury Apartments in Carolina Forest, Livesay said.
Another man, Delshawn Anthony Davis, was also charged in connection to the shooting and he pleaded guilty Dec. 12, 2016, to manslaughter and was sentenced to 25 years in prison.
