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A man who was 15 when he stabbed his 14-year-old "best friend" to death during a January 2000 sleepover will spend at least 10 more years in prison, the Utah Board of Pardons and Parole announced Monday.
Brookes Colby Shumway - who is serving a term of five years to life in Utah State Prison - is scheduled for his next parole hearing in January 2016.
Shumway has told several versions of how Christopher Ray was stabbed 39 times with two different knives in the early hours of Jan. 23, 2000, at the victim's Sandy trailer home, including self-defense and that the victim fell on a knife.
Earlier this month, Shumway, now 22 and in custody for seven years, told a parole officer that he killed Ray in anger because the victim had made sexual advances toward him.
Tried as an adult, Shumway was found guilty by a 3rd District Court jury of first-degree felony murder and second-degree felony evidence tampering.
But after the Utah Supreme Court overturned the homicide conviction because of an erroneous jury instruction and threw out the evidence tampering because of insufficient evidence, Shumway pleaded guilty to first-degree felony aggravated burglary and second-degree felony manslaughter.
-Stephen Hunt