CALDWELL COUNTY, N.C. — A Lenoir man pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter for killing a man at a relative’s birthday party.
Fredrick Patterson admitted to shooting and killing Douglas Burgess along Harpertown Drive in Caldwell County in 2022.
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Deputies said an argument led to the violence. Patterson then ran away but later turned himself in.
He will spend between six and a half and eight years in prison, according to the Hickory Record.
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