A 24-year-old Danville man has been sentenced to 16 years in prison after pleading guilty to second degree murder. Raymond Collins Jr. entered a plea agreement in which charges of first degree murder against him were dropped.
Collins and another Danville man, 29-year-old Christopher Echols, were charged with murder in the February 5th, 2013 shooting death of Deandre Dunbar. The 23-year-old Chicago man was found mortally wounded when police arrived in the 900 block of Lewis Lane.
In April Vermilion County Circuit Judge Nancy Fahey sentenced Echols to five years in prison for unlawful use of a weapon, and five years for obstruction of justice. The sentences are to run concurrently, and in the plea agreement charges of first-degree murder against Echols were dropped. It was Judge Fahey who also presided over the hearing where Collins entered his plea agreement on Friday (August 3, 2018).
