After pleading guilty to manslaughter in the shooting death of a volunteer firefighter who was coming to his assistance, a North Little Rock man apologized to the victim's family.
Mark Eugene Pruitt, 49, pleaded guilty Thursday morning in Pulaski County Circuit Judge Barry Sims’ courtroom Thursday morning. The hearing came a little less than two weeks before Pruitt's jury trial was set to begin. The judge sentenced him to eight years in prison with some credit for the time he has already spent in jail.
Pruitt fatally shot 29-year-old Ronald Jason Adams, who went by his middle name and was a volunteer firefighter with the East Pulaski department as well as a lieutenant for the Sherwood Fire Department.