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An 18-year-old from Richmond entered a guilty plea Thursday to the second-degree murder and attempted armed robbery of a man whom he and a friend had lured to a meeting after contact on social media.

Octavis Green, who was 17 when he was arrested last year, was sentenced to serve an active term of 30 years, even though his attorney argued that he was the less culpable of the two defendants. Co-defendant Nicholas Thomas, 21, pleaded no contest to first-degree murder and will be sentenced on Aug. 22.

Richmond Circuit Judge Phillip L. Hairston suspended an additional 23 years from Green’s sentence. He had no criminal record.

Shortly before 2 a.m. on May 11, 2018, Richmond police responded to the 3100 block of Alvis Avenue, in the Brookland Park area, where they found Russell Long, 22.

He was taken to VCU Medical Center, where he died. According to his autopsy, Long was shot seven times in the buttocks, legs, wrist and abdomen; the shot to the abdomen was fatal.