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Man given 25-year prison sentence in 2016 fatal Athens Street shooting
Darvis Bledson
Darvis Bledson
A 34-year-old man was given a 25-year prison sentence for a September 2016 fatal shooting on Athens Street in Gainesville. Darvis Donquan Bledson accepted a negotiated plea for voluntary manslaughter. The first 25 years of his 50-year sentence will be in prison, and the final 25 years can be on probation. Bledson was charged with shooting Terry Jerome Maddox, 30, of Gainesville, Sept. 9, 2016. Maddox was shot multiple times and died at the scene