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CLEVELAND (WJW) -- A Virginia woman who pleaded guilty earlier this year to driving more than 300 miles to meet up with a Cleveland man at Cuyahoga Valley National Park, where she then shot and killed him, is now headed to prison.

Chelsea D. Perkins, 35, of Alexandria, Virginia, admitted to murdering Matthew Dunmire, 31, of Cleveland, in the park in March 2021, according to a Tuesday news release from Daniel Toepfer, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Ohio.

A federal judge on Tuesday, Sept. 9, sentenced Perkins to 22 1/2 years in prison on charges of murder in the second degree and for discharging a firearm during a violent crime on federal property.

She will also be supervised for five years upon her release. Sh

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