DURANT — A Bennington man was sentenced to five years in prison for running over and killing a pedestrian.

Parker Allen Tyson, 24, pleaded no contest this week to leaving the scene of a fatality accident and second-degree manslaughter for the August 2008 death of Joshua Lynn Williams, 20, whose body was found on Cade Highway northeast of Bennington. Tyson was charged the following month after an investigation by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.

Tyson was sentenced to 10 years in prison with five of those years suspended.

According to a probable-cause affidavit by OHP Capt. Ronnie Hampton, Williams left a party on foot and investigators learned that Tyson left a few minutes later in a Dodge pickup.

Patrol investigators learned that Tyson called his ex-wife and said that he had killed someone and could not tell police because he was drunk.

Tyson, according to the affidavit, said he drove off the road and that when he pulled back onto to it, he struck someone laying in the road. Investigators matched tire marks on the victim to the tires on Tyson’s truck.

Tyson also pleaded no contest to unrelated charges of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon and eluding police. He was given five years each on those charges, to be served concurrently with the other sentence.