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‘It Was A Brutal Killing’

Patterson Gets Life Sentence For Murder Of His Father
‘It Was A Brutal Killing’

Decorum was briefly broken in Buena Vista Circuit Court on Friday, with gasps and a smattering of claps rang out from the family of Philip Edmond “Jay” Patterson II, as Judge Christopher Russell sentenced Patterson’s murderer – his son, Jonathan Kane Patterson – to life in prison for first-degree murder.

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