WASHINGTON — A Clifton, Virginia, man was sentenced Wednesday in the death of his Centreville High School classmate.
David Evers was sentenced to 12 years, with five years suspended, in the overdose death of Alexia Springer, 17, said Robert McClain, deputy commonwealth’s attorney for Fairfax County.
Evers entered an Alford plea in September to charges of distribution of morphine. In such a plea, the defendant doesn’t admit guilt, but concedes that the government has enough evidence to prove its case. He faced five to 40 years in prison.
Springer was found dead in her home on Coleman Court, in Centreville, March 1, 2016. Her death was ruled accidental; an autopsy found that she had alcohol, morphine, oxycodone and the anti-anxiety medication alprazolam, sold under the trade name Xanax, in her system.
Evers turned himself in to the police last May.
