Fayetteville teen pleads to second-degree murder in the 2023 death of his father, Chef Hefe

A Fayetteville teen was sentenced to at least 12 years in prison recently for the death of his father, a well-known personal chef in the city. Nearly a year after his father, Bryant Kirby Preston Jr., died, Jaeden Preston, 18, pleaded guilty in Cumberland County Superior Court on April 17 to second-degree murder in the death. His 36-year-old father, an Army veteran, was known to thousands of online followers and customers as Chef Hefe. Judge George R. Hicks III sentenced the younger Preston to 12 to 15 years, five months...