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CHAMBERLAIN — A Chamberlain man was sentenced Thursday afternoon to 22 years in prison for killing a man in June 2018.

Nicholas Yellow Lodge, 20, pleaded guilty but mentally ill to the first-degree manslaughter of 77-year-old David Hart in September and will be evaluated at the Human Services Center in Yankton prior to beginning his prison sentence.

In a 25-minute hearing at the Brule County Courthouse, Yellow Lodge was sentenced to 30 years in prison with eight years suspended and given credit for the year and a half he’s spent in jail since his arrest. He is the first person convicted of first-degree manslaughter in Brule County in more than 30 years.