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An Arkansas teen who killed his mother was given a 30-year sentence
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Booneville, Arkansas – According to court documents, a boy from Logan County who killed his mother in 2022 will serve the next thirty years in prison.
On December 20, 18-year-old William Frost entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder in Logan County Circuit Court in Booneville.
Frost took his mother’s.357 caliber handgun into his bedroom on August 7, 2022, waited there, and then shot and killed her. According to court documents, he was 16 years old when the murder occurred.
Frost entered a not-guilty plea to the initial allegation of first-degree murder.
At a hearing following over two years of postponements and delays, Frost pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree murder.
After being postponed several times, Frost’s jury trial was finally scheduled to start in April of 2025.
He received credit for 867 days previously spent toward his 30-year prison term.
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