The man who pleaded guilty in Saline County Court to charges of voluntary manslaughter and abandoning the victim’s body will spend the next three decades in a state prison cell.

34-year-old Richard Arrington was sentenced Monday, Oct. 6 to 34 years in prison. Court records indicate that Arrington admitted in September to three of the eight charges he was facing in connection with a March 2021 shooting death in Lafayette County. Arrington was sentenced to 15 years each for the voluntary manslaughter and armed criminal action charges, and then four years for abandonment of a corpse along a Lafayette County highway. He had initially been charged with the victim’s murder. Prosecutors agreed to reduce the murder charge to voluntary manslaughter and drop the remaining charges as part of the plea deal. The case had been moved to Saline County on a change of venue request in May 2024.

Arrington will receive credit for the 32 months he has spent behind bars thus far. His remaining sentences will be served consecutively.