SHREVEPORT, LA – William David Payne II was sentenced last week to 23 years in prison for a January attack
on a man in a Shreveport nightclub. According to the Shreveport Times, Caddo District Court Judge Ramona Emanuel ordered Payne to serve 18 years for aggravated battery and the maximum of five years for a hate crime. She ordered the sentences to be served consecutively.

Payne had entered a guilty plea to charges he attacked John Skaggs with a pool cue and was in court for a multiple offender hearing.

Payne admitted to the multiple offender charge, a release from the court said.