MONROE COUNTY, Miss. (WTVA) – A man was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to manslaughter and cocaine trafficking in separate cases.

District Attorney Jason D. Herring announced that 50-year-old Don C. Gilleylen entered guilty pleas in both cases on Sept. 29.

The drug case stemmed from a checkpoint conducted by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office, while the manslaughter charge involves the fatal shooting of Lucious Freeman in October 2021.

Gilleylen was sentenced to 10 years to serve for trafficking cocaine and the maximum of 20 years for manslaughter, with both sentences to run concurrently.