Shuba Receives 20-Year Sentence

DAYTON - Joseph Shu- ba, who pleaded guilty last month to second-degree murder in the shooting death of his wife, Suzanne, last year, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on January 30 by Columbia County Superior Court Judge William Acey.

Shuba, 59, was ordered to serve 180 months for murder plus 60 additional months because the crime involved a firearm.

Suzanne Shuba was killed April 29 after she and her husband argued while preparing dinner. Shuba said he went to a bedroom in their house, got a pistol, and then returned to the kitchen and shot Suzanne twice.

Shuba was transferred to the Washington State Peni- tentiary in Walla Walla fol- lowing his sentencing.