THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, December 14, 1994 TAG: 9412140630
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B4 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE LENGTH: Short : 24 lines
A 37-year-old heroin addict was sentenced Tuesday to 28 years in prison for second-degree murder after a friend overdosed on drugs they shared in a Chesapeake motel earlier this year.
William S. Seagle Jr. helped 21-year-old Amy L. Gerstein shoot up with heroin three times. Seagle gave Gerstein injections in the hand, arm and foot.
Gerstein died Jan. 27 from a drug overdose in a room at the Econo Lodge in the 2200 block of S. Military Highway.
Although Seagle maintained that the death was accidental, a Circuit Court jury convicted Seagle in October of second-degree murder and recommended that he spend 28 years in prison on murder and drug charges.
KEYWORDS: SENTENCE MURDER DRUG ABUSE by CNB