A West Virginia man is being sentenced to life in prison after telling a judge he shot and killed his girlfriend last year because she interrupted his sleep.
Fifty-year-old Eric Brian Pauley pleaded guilty to first-degree murder on Friday in Putnam County Circuit Court.
Pauley told Judge Phillip Stowers that he shot 52-year-old Debra Rosiek at their Winfield trailer in September 2011 because he was mad that she woke him up in the middle of the night.
ERIC Brian Pauley tells the Putnam County Circuit Court, West Virginia,why he shot and killed Debra Rosiek, 52:
“She woke me up. . . . It made me mad she woke me up like that in the middle of the night…She come in, flipped the light on and started hollering.”
The Charleston Gazette reports that Stowers questioned Pauley’s state of mind during the hearing.
Stowers then accepted a plea agreement that called for Pauley to serve life in prison with the possibility of parole after 15 years. He already has served more than one year behind bars.
