HASTINGS, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — A Barry County teen who police say fatally shot a 17-year-old with a crossbow and then buried his body in a shallow grave has now pleaded guilty to open murder.
18-year-old Patrick Gilmore is set to be sentenced on Wednesday, May 25 for the September 2021 homicide of 17-year-old Lane Roslund.
Authorities say Gilmore was 17 years old at the time he committed the crime and was charged as an adult with open murder and concealment of a body.
A probable cause document filed in Barry County Circuit Court states that Gilmore told detectives he shot Roslund once in the chest with a crossbow on September 10, or September 11 in 2021.
Gilmore lead Michigan State Police to Roslund’s body which was buried behind his grandfather’s Hastings Township home on October 13, 2021.
The Barry County Prosecutor Julie Nakfoor Pratt said her office is pursuing a life sentence without the possibility of parole, but that because Gilmore was younger than 18 at the time of the crime, his defense team could argue for a lesser term.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that juveniles may not receive mandatory sentences of life without parole.
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