Man sentenced to 10 years in prison in Clinton shooting death

CLINTON CO., Iowa (KWQC) - One of the two men who pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter in a Clinton shooting will spend 10 years in prison.

Julius Graham, 20, was sentenced on Oct. 29 after pleading guilty in September, according to court records. He also pleaded guilty to possession of a firearm by a domestic abuse offender in a second case.

In February, Clinton officers found Brady Newsom, 20, with a gunshot wound in the 500 block of 22nd Avenue North. He later died at a local hospital.

Witnesses told police Graham, and his co-defendant Noah Pruett, had been drinking and Pruett gave Graham a gun.

Pruett admitted to giving a loaded gun to an intoxicated person after seeing him acting irresponsible with the gun earlier, according to his written guilty plea.

The judge sentenced Graham to five years in prison each on the charges and the sentences will run back-to-back.

Pruett will be sentenced on Dec. 3.