LONGVIEW, Texas (KLTV) - A New Orleans man was given 35 years in prison Friday in connection with a fatal 2020 shooting in Longview.

Aaron J. Williams, 41, pleaded guilty before 188th District Judge Scott Novy as part of a plea agreement. Williams was accused of killing Joseph Pierre Brice, 44, at a business on Mobberly Avenue.

According to a search warrant affidavit filed at the time of the shooting , Longview police officers were dispatched out to the 1700 block of Mobberly Avenue at about 3:19 p.m. on Feb. 29, 2020 to check out a report of a shooting. The caller said that Brice had possibly been shot and had several injuries to his head.

When the Longview PD officers arrived at the scene, they found that Brice was dead and that he had multiple gunshot wounds to his head, the affi

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