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ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man has been sentenced to life in prison for killing his disabled neighbor in 2017.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 58-year-old Barry Anderson was sentenced Friday after a jury in August found him guilty of second-degree murder and other counts in the July 2017 shooting death of Darryl Smith.
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Smith was found dead in his apartment. Police say he was unarmed, disabled and walked with a cane.
Surveillance video showed Anderson entering Smith’s apartment and leaving a few minutes later. Police later found handgun with Smith’s blood on the barrel, hidden in a ceramic lion at Anderson’s girlfriend’s home.
At trial, Anderson claimed self-defense during a robbery attempt.
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