A Lewiston man has been sentenced to 7 ½ years in prison for suffocating his 94-year-old father in his bed.
60-year-old Mark Hopson received the sentence after pleading guilty in June to voluntary manslaughter and failure to report a death, both felonies.
Hopson will serve 7½ to 15 years for the first count, and zero to 10 years for the second count, running consecutively.
Mark Hopson was convicted of suffocating his Alzheimer’s-afflicted, 94-year-old father Billy Hopson with a pillow at their Prospect Avenue home in Lewiston last year. (Lewiston Tribune)
