BERKELEY SPRINGS, W.Va. – Wesley McCoy, of Berkeley Springs, will serve 40 years in prison after being convicted for the August 2014 stabbing death of Justin Buell.
McCoy received his sentence yesterday.
A jury convicted McCoy of second degree murder in July.
McCoy was also sentenced to serve a year in jail for a brandishing a deadly weapon conviction and a destruction of property conviction.
The Journal reports the judge sentenced him to serve the first concurrently with his murder sentence and the latter consecutively.
McCoy has been in the Eastern Regional Jail since Aug. 19, 2014 when he stabbed Buell through the neck in the middle of U.S. 522, following an altercation.
He has already served his destruction of property charge and will be transferred directly to the custody of the West Virginia Division of Corrections.