WARNER ROBINS, Ga. — A judge Wednesday sentenced a Warner Robins man charged with fatally shooting another man during an argument in January 2018.
Daniel Bruce Franz was sentenced by Chief Judge Edward Lukemire to 25 years in prison after being convicted on charges of voluntary manslaughter and possession of a firearm by a felon.
The charges are from a January 13, 2018, case at the Tanglewood Apartments in Warner Robins where Vincent Junior was shot to death.
Witnesses testified the pair had been friends for years and they got into an argument in the living room because Junior wanted marijuana from Franz.
Junior allegedly followed Franz into the kitchen with a gun, and robbed him of a bag of marijuana. He then walked back into the living room and bragged about taking the ‘sack.’
Franz then came around from the back of the house and shot Junior three times, killing him. He then ran away.
The jury considered charges of malice murder, felony murder, voluntary manslaughter, aggravated assault and possession of firearm by a convicted felon.
Franz's 2018 arrest wasn't his first run-in with the law either. According to documents at the Houston County Superior Court clerk's office, he had two closed cases and four open ones working their way through the court system at the time of the Tanglewood shooting.