A Hurtsboro man convicted this year of stabbing a man and stealing his car was sentenced today to 25 years in prison, prosecutors said.

Al'Cashua J. Lanier, 22, was convicted of attempted murder and first-degree robbery in the stabbing, which happened last year in Hatchechubbee.

Prosecutors said Lanier, accompanied by his brother Gregory Lanier and Glamta L. Holloway, attacked Ladarrius T. Brunson at the side of the road inside Brunson’s Ford Mustang and drove off in his vehicle.

The 22-year-old Brunson was cut three times across the neck and stabbed four times, but he escaped the car and fled into the woods. He remained there about 36 hours and took shelter in a hunter’s cabin before he eventually was spotted walking down the road by a group of hunters, who took him to an ambulance station in Seale.

Lanier's defense attorney argued at trial that the pattern of Brunson's wounds indicated he was attacked by Holloway and Gregory Lanier, but not by Al’Cashua Lanier.

Al’Cashua Lanier was sitting behind his brother, who was driving the car. Brunson was riding in the front passenger seat when he was attacked, prosecutors said.

Holloway also has been convicted of attempted murder and robbery and was sentenced this year to life in prison. Prosecutors said he had prior convictions.

Gregory Lanier, meanwhile, is expected to plead guilty next month, Assistant District Attorney Buster Landreau said.