To Prison for a Longview Murder
Posted/updated on: April 1, 2017 at 2:37 pm
LONGVIEW – A Longview man is going to prison for a murder over two years ago. Aaron McCoy, 25, had been arrested and charged with the murder of Garrett Neal. The Longview News Journal reports McCoy pled guilty Friday morning and was sentenced to 33 years in prison. Neal was found shot in a home on Sandlin Street in January of 2015. McCoy was arrested in the case in May of last year after an inmate who had been in the same cellblock with him, told investigators McCoy had admitted to the murder. The inmate also said that McCoy had left his cell phone at the scene of the murder.
