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Man Sentenced In Beating Death Of His Grandmother

WCBE 90.5FM | By Associated Press

Published April 18, 2014 at 7:01 AM EDT

A Columbus man who pleaded guilty in the death of his 90-year-old grandmother was sentenced Thursday to 17 years in prison. 41-year-old John Spindler beat his 60-year-old mother and threw his grandmother to the floor last June when she tried to intervene in a dispute at the family's home. The grandmother died days later. Spindler pleaded guilty last month.