THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, August 29, 1996 TAG: 9608290405
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: BY SUSIE STOUGHTON, STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: SUFFOLK LENGTH: 41 lines
Wylie Holloman, one of three Suffolk men convicted of killing a brother last year, was sentenced Wednesday to 33 years in prison in the shooting death of David Holloman.
Judge Westbrook J. Parker sentenced Holloman, 34, to 70 years for first-degree murder, then suspended 40 years. Parker also imposed a mandatory three-year sentence for using a firearm in the commission of a felony.
Holloman had entered a plea of no contest in May before retired Judge William H. Hodges of Virginia Beach.
Prosecutor Kenneth Phillips and Holloman's lawyer, Timothy Miller, of the public defender's office, agreed to have Parker impose the sentencing because Hodges has been unavailable this summer.
Phillips asked for the maximum penalty, life in prison, on the murder charge.
Miller requested leniency, asking the judge to sentence his client to seven to 14 years.
The shooting occurred last September at the home the brothers shared in the 1800 block of Ferry Point Road.
David Holloman, 24, was shot in the right arm and side with a 12-gauge shotgun and died 12 days later in Obici Hospital.
Three of the city's four homicides in 1995 involved brothers killing younger brothers. Each slaying occurred in the home the brothers shared in separate sections of the city.
Jimmy Lee White, 51, was convicted in February of second-degree murder and use of a knife in the commission of a felony.
He stabbed his brother, David White, last summer in their home in the 1800 block of Cypress Chapel Road.
Prenell Randolph Jr., 30, was convicted in July of voluntary manslaughter and use of a firearm in the commission of a felony.
He shot his brother, Wayne, twice in the chest with a large-caliber handgun at the home they shared with their mother and older brother in the Jericho section.
KEYWORDS: MURDER CONVICTION SENTENCE SIBLING by CNB