Mass. man sentenced in refugee's murder

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) -- An Attleboro man has been sentenced to prison for stabbing a man to death in Providence.

Lemar Wilburn, 20, with a last known address of 5 Sixth St. in Attleboro, was sentenced to 60 years with 35 to serve for the murder of 26-year-old Princeton Miller.

He pleaded no contest to the charge of second-degree murder in court Monday.

Miller was an immigrant from war-torn Liberia ,who came to this country to escape the violence.

We're told that both Wilburn and Miller were visiting friends at separate houses on Mawney Street back in May of 2011. Wilburn, along with three other men, got into a verbal altercation outside of the victim's friend's house, which ended with Wilburn fatally stabbing Miller in the neck, chest, back and leg.

Police recovered Wilburn's baseball cap and nearly $200 in cash at the scene. They were able to identify and question the three other men present at the time of the crime, all of which identified Wilburn as the one who stabbed Miller.

Wilburn was arrested by Attleboro police, and later admitted to stabbing Miller to Providence police.