Rooker gets 35 years in prison

CARUTHERSVILLE -- A New Madrid man was sentenced to 35 years in prison for a fatal stabbing.

Robert Rooker, 49, was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in the Department of Corrections on a charge of second degree murder in the death of Patrick Bradley by Circuit Judge Fred Copeland. On a charge of armed criminal action, Rooker was sentenced to 10 years in prison with Copeland ordering that sentence to be served consecutively to the first charge.

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