Sentence Modification Sought For Colt Lundy In 2010 Murder
Sentence Modification Sought For Colt Lundy In 2010 Murder
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David Slone-dslone@timesuniononline.com
Sentence Modification Sought For Colt Lundy In 2010 MurderColt Lundy – who was sentenced to prison for shooting and killing his stepfather in 2010 when he was 15 – will appear before Kosciusko County Superior Court I Judge David Cates Thursday to request a sentence modification.
The hearing is set for 11:30 a.m.
His previous request for a sentence modification on March 24, 2016, was denied by Cates.
Lundy, now 23, is at the Westville Correctional Center.
According to an April 22, 2010, Times-Union story, then-15-year-old Colt Lundy, then-12-year-old Paul Gingerich and then-12-year-old Chase Williams were involved in the murder of Phillip A. Danner, 49, of 9219 E. Doswell Boulevard, Cromwell, on April 20, 2010.
Danner, Lundy’s stepfather, was walking from the kitchen of the residence to the living room when Lundy and Gingerich each shot him, according to police at the time. The weapons used were a .38 caliber revolver and a Glock semi-automatic pistol.
Danner suffered four gunshot wounds, two in the torso, one to the left wrist and one just above the right eye socket. His body was found in the kitchen of the home. Police believe Danner was shot sometime between 6:30 and 8 p.m. April 20, 2010.
The juveniles were detained in Peru, Ill., April 21, 2010, after they tried to exchange a large amount of change for bills at a Wal-Mart. An employee of the store became suspicious after seeing the three youngsters alone in the store at 3 a.m. When police responded to the call from the store at approximately 3:40 a.m., one of the juveniles reportedly told the officer about the shooting.
Lundy and Gingerich were waived to adult court to face murder charges.
Adult charges of assisting a criminal were not pursued against Williams. Williams had waited outside of the home while Lundy and Gingerich shot Danner. He was sentenced to a juvenile facility for up to six years in May 2010, but was released from juvenile detention by January 2011.
In September 2010, under a plea agreement, Lundy pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit murder. Two other felony counts of murder and aiding, assisting or inducing a murder were dismissed. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison with the final five years suspended for probation.
Gingerich was sentenced in January 2011 to served 30 years for his part in the murder. As part of a plea deal, charges of murder and aiding and abetting were dropped, and he pleaded guilty to a charge of conspiracy to commit murder, then a Class A felony. The sentence was reduced to 25 years with five years probation.
His sentence was modified under a law passed in 2013 – Paul’s Law, named for Gingerich – which allows juveniles who commit serious crimes to receive alternative sentences.
During a hearing in Kosciusko Circuit Court Oct. 28, 2016, special Judge James Heuer modified Gingerich’s original sentence under the new law. With the new sentence, Gingerich was to serve 20 years in prison with 10 years suspended.
Gingerich, now 20, was released from prison last year after spending seven years in prison, according to Associated Press. He will be under 24-hour electronic monitoring until 2019 and court supervision until 2020.
An Associated Press story indicates he’ll begin 10 years of probation.
