Former Group Home Employee Sentenced

{Lancaster, Kentucky}...Twenty-two year old Tyler Brock was sentenced Friday to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty in June to second-degree manslaughter in the 2011 death of 35 year old Shawn K. Akridge, a disabled resident at a group home in Paint Lick. Brock's attorney, Gary Crabtree, argued for probation saying his client was named valedictorian at his high school, had completed three years of college and had never been arrested. Akridge's brother, Wayne Akridge, asked that Brock be sent to prison. He said his brother functioned at the level of a 7 year old, and Brock was supposed to protect him.