ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. — A man was sentenced to serve 12 to 16 years in prison for a 2021 homicide in Elizabeth City .

On Wednesday, John Randall Landry, 55, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced in Pasquotank County Superior Court.

Officers from the Elizabeth City Police Department responded to the Quality Inn on Hughes Boulevard on June 26, 2021, for a report of a suspicious death. Jacqueline Marie Castal, 54, later died of a gunshot wound at Sentara Albemarle Medical Center, they said.

Landry and Castal were from Pennsylvania.

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