An Allegheny County judge sentenced a Garfield man on Wednesday to 15 1/2 to 31 years in prison for fatally shooting a man in his neighborhood.

Common Pleas Judge Anthony M. Mariani sentenced Earl Wimbush, 23, for killing Timothy Bottoms, 23, on Nov. 1, 2009, along Cornwall Street. Mariani convicted Wimbush in April after a bench trial of third-degree murder, carrying a gun without a license and reckless endangerment.

A tip from a Tribune-Review reader led to the arrest of Wimbush, a member of the U.S. Marshal’s Western Pennsylvania Fugitive Task Force has said. Wimbush was one of those profiled in the task force’s list of Most Wanted Fugitives which s published the last Sunday of each month in the Trib.

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