By JESSICA SAVAGE
The Lufkin Daily News

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

An Angelina County jury has given a 15-year prison sentence to a Lufkin man convicted of killing his best friend in 2007.

Gilberto Perez Jr., 28, will be eligible for parole after serving half of that sentence, or seven and a half years, for the murder of Wesley Tyrone Hawthorne, 35, on Aug. 13, 2007.

The jury handed down the sentence after deliberating for several hours Tuesday.

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