Monessen man sentenced to prison for 2010 slaying
A Monessen man accused of shooting and killing a man at a party in California last year will spend the next 15 to 30 years in prison.
Washington County Judge Paul Pozonsky sentenced Keith Edward Jones, 20, after Jones pleaded guilty in September to criminal homicide in the shooting death of Jeron Xavier Grayson, 18, of Pittsburgh at a party Oct. 17, 2010.
State police said Jones was charged with criminal homicide, two counts of aggravated assault, carrying a firearm without a license, discharging a firearm into an occupied structure and recklessly endangering another person in the shooting death of Grayson.
Police said the charges were filed after Jones fired multiple rounds from a handgun into an occupied residence around 2 a.m. Oct. 17, striking and killing Grayson.