Jul 31, 2018 By The 2 min read

A Uniontown man pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and was sentenced Tuesday for killing a man during a robbery staged as a drug deal.

Arsuan Lee Patterson, 20, was sentenced to 22 ½ to 45 years behind bars in the Feb. 26, 2017 death of Jordan Mapstone, 24, of Brownsville. Patterson shot Mapstone once in the chest outside a Dunlap Street home in Uniontown. Police alleged another woman orchestrated the drug deal as a way to rob Mapstone’s girlfriend, Trisa Stickle.

Patterson told Fayette County President Judge John F. Wagner Jr. that he was high on the anti-anxiety medication Xanax at the time, and didn’t know what he was doing.

Police said that Patterson, who Stickle did not know, came to her car when she and Mapstone showed up to buy drugs from Keli Brumley, 21, of Brownsville. Brumley, who was also charged in the case, allegedly set up the two to be robbed.

Patterson, police said, came to their car with a gun and demanded Mapstone and Stickle give him their money. When Stickle tried to drive off, Patterson shot Mapstone.

Mapstone died at Uniontown Hospital.

Brumley, who is facing charges of criminal homicide, conspriacy to commit robbery and reckless endangerment, is scheduled for trial in September.

In addition to third-degree murder, Patterson also pleaded guilty to charges of robbery, reckless endangerment, prohibited possession of a firearm and aggravated and simple assault.