CLINTON TOWNSHIP (AP) - A 25-year-old Michigan man accused of helping his mother kill a man has been convicted of second-degree murder.
The Macomb Daily reports that Deangelo Jones of Clinton Township in southeastern Michigan was found guilty by a Macomb County jury last week in the 2013 slaying of 33-year-old James Williams.
Prosecutors say Jones and two others beat Williams during an attack in which Jones' mother, Belinda Jones, stabbed him. She was convicted of second-degree murder in 2015 and sentenced to prison for 16 to 35 years.
Jones chose to stand trial rather than accept a plea deal similar to those accepted by his two co-defendants, who pleaded no contest to assault charges in exchange for far shorter sentences than the one Belinda Jones received. He's scheduled to be sentenced in March.
Published: Tue, Feb 13, 2018
