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Glouco man gets 26 years in fatal stabbing

A Deptford man was sentenced Friday to 26 years in state prison for fatally stabbing his neighbor in 2009, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office said.

A Deptford man was sentenced Friday to 26 years in state prison for fatally stabbing his neighbor in 2009, the Gloucester County Prosecutor's Office said.

Donald D. Hetrick, 49, stabbed Roland Webster, 39, more than 12 times, then cleaned up and went to a bar, officials said. Hetrick argued that he had blacked out and could not remember the day Webster was killed, but a judge found him fit to stand trial.

Hetrick was charged with homicide on Feb. 20, a day after his mother discovered Webster's body in Hetrick's home. He is being held in the Gloucester County Jail. - Darran Simon