A Trenton man will serve more than two decades behind bars for the murder of his business associate.

Jameson Read, 26 was sentenced Monday to 21 years for felony second degree murder and 21 years for felony first-degree assault in connection with the death of 54-year-old John Vencill of Trenton in 2013.  Read pleaded guilty to the charges in Oct. The sentences will run concurrently with each other.

As we previously reported, in 2013 Police Chief Tommy Wright said Read was charged after Vencill was reported missing. Wright alleges Read shot Vencill several times at Read’s home in Trenton.

Wright says Read allegedly dumped the victim’s vehicle in a farm pond in a remote part of Sullivan County. Police recovered the vehicle with Vencill’s body inside.