A Jackson man who admitted running down and killing a Vicksburg resident in 2010 after attempting to break into the victim’s car has been sentenced to 35 years in prison.

Julius Lamont Reed Jr., 22, appeared in Hinds County Circuit Court Monday and pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of 52-year-old Franklin Salas June 12, 2010.

Reed was given a 20-year prison term on the manslaughter charge, and was sentenced to serve 14 years under two guilty pleas for auto burglary and one year for receiving stolen goods. The sentences are to be served consecutively.

Officials said Salas had been dining at the Crawdad Hole restaurant and came out to find Reed breaking into his Ford Explorer, parked at the nearby Smith-Wills Stadium.

Reed, whose address at the time was 5600 Woodroad Terrace, Jackson, jumped into his own vehicle and ran down Salas in his attempt to get away.

Salas suffered head injuries and died the next day at University Medical Center.

Records showed Reed was on “earned release supervision” from the Mississippi Department of Corrections after serving less than two months of two separate two-year prison sentences.

He was arrested July 9, 2010, and initially charged with capital murder because Salas’ death occurred in the commission of another crime. He had been scheduled for trial Monday but entered the guilty pleas instead.

Reed has multiple convictions on his record, including one on June 5, 2009, for auto theft and auto burglary in Warren County that year, for which he was sentenced to serve two years in prison followed by five years of supervised probation after his release.

He was given an identical sentence in Rankin County Circuit Court on March 1, 2010, for two auto burglaries dating to 2008, a spokesman there said.

The Warren and Rankin county sentences were to be served concurrently.

Records showed Reed was given “earned released supervision” less than two months later, on April 25, 2010.

Salas, who was an Air Force veteran, was the owner of South Mississippi Signs and did business with Vicksburg and Gulf Coast casinos, as well as casinos in Louisiana and Florida. He was originally from Spokane, Wash., and had lived in Biloxi from the early 1980s until his move to Vicksburg.

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The Associated Press contributed to this report.