GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The man who pleaded guilty to second-degree homicide in the shooting death of a teenage girl in downtown Grand Rapids has been sentenced to 25 to 50 years in prison.
Josiah Pittman entered the guilty plea to second-degree homicide as well as a weapons charge in August, in connection to the shooting death of 15-year-old Lakyijah Williams.
Pittman was accused of firing a gun with the intention to hit someone else, but the bullet struck Williams instead.
Alongside his 25-50 year sentence for second degree homicide, the weapons charge Pittman pleaded guilty to comes with a sentence of 2 consecutive years in prison.
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