Published February 3, 2010

TEXAS CITY — A co-defendant charged in the torture slaying of a man whose body was found floating in Galveston Bay pleaded guilty to murder and awaits sentencing, court officials said Tuesday.

Brian O’Neal Richardson, 28, is the second person convicted in the April 12, 2008, slaying of Gary Wayne Bell.

Judge John Ellisor accepted Richardson’s guilty plea Monday in Galveston’s 122nd District Court. Testimony in Richardson’s punishment phase began Tuesday. He faces from five years to life in prison.

Ellisor could rule on Richardson’s sentence today.

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