SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) - A South Dakota State Penitentiary inmate serving life in prison for first-degree murder for a fatal shooting more than 25 years ago has died.
David Stansbury died Saturday at the penitentiary, the state Department of Corrections said. He was 68 and was serving a life sentence from Minnehaha County.
Stansbury pleaded guilty in September 1993 to the murder of Marlin McLaughlin, the brother of Stansbury’s ex-girlfriend, the Argus Leader reported. Stansbury had stalked and shot the woman before gunning down McLaughlin in Sioux Falls in March 1993. Stansbury’s ex-girlfriend was able to scramble back inside the home, but McLaughlin was shot in the heart and died in less than a minute.
Stansbury died of natural causes, Corrections Department spokesman Michael Winder said.
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