Man pleads guilty to manslaughter for 2022 Sheffield stabbing
SHEFFIELD, Ala. (WHNT) — Court records show a Tuscumbia man pleaded guilty to the lesser charge of manslaughter for a 2022 stabbing.
A plea agreement filed on Wednesday says Darecus Jamar Mason, 31, agreed to plead guilty to a lesser charge and received a split sentence.
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Mason will serve 5 years in prison as part of his split sentence.
He will serve that sentence concurrently with a two year sentence for second-degree assault as part of another guilty plea. An indictment shows Mason assaulted someone in May 2023 by hitting them with a broken mop handle and biting them.
On May 4, 2022, authorities were called to the area of Monroe Drive, about one block West of Main Street just after 11 p.m.
Logan said Muscle Shoals Police arrested Mason in connection with the stabbing. He was charged with murder, with bond set at $500,000.
Colbert County Coroner Justin Gasque confirmed at the time one person was killed in the stabbing. The Friday following the incident, Chief Logan said the victim, 44-year-old Earnest Lee Jones, died at Helen Keller Hospital.
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Witnesses told police an altercation led to the stabbing.
Logan said Mason was wanted on a parole violation as well, where he had been convicted of disarming a Sheffield officer – he was serving 10 years on that charge.
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