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19-year-old gets 60 years in fatal stabbing

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Posted: 12/18/2012

    ELLICOTT CITY, Md -  

    A Columbia man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for the fatal stabbing of a fellow teenager in 2011.
     
    Nineteen-year-old Xavier Bates apologized to Christian Hall's family at his sentencing Friday in Ellicott City. 
     
    Bates says he's not a monster -- just a young man who made a life-changing mistake.
     
    Bates pleaded guilty in September to first-degree murder for stabbing the 17-year-old victim with a knife he allegedly stole from a local supermarket.
     
    Police say Bates had accused Hall of disrespecting him and sucker-punching him while he was on his bicycle.

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