A Brunswick man pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter Monday in a 2019 second-degree murder case.
Troy West-Sturdevant, 35, of Supply, received a three-to-five year prison sentence after pleading guilty to fatally hitting a man with a car in the parking lot of Charlie Brown s bar in Supply in March 2019, according to Brunswick County District Attorney s Office Executive Assistant Ashley Bullard.
According to Bullard, prosecutors said West-Sturdevant and the victim, John Curtis Smith, 32, of Supply, got into a verbal altercation at the bar located in the 2500 block of Seashore Road in Supply. According to Jenna Earley, Brunswick County chief assistant to the district attorney, there were differing accounts from the scene regarding the topic of that altercation.