FORT COLLINS, Colo. — A 21-year-old Ohio man has been sentenced to 23 years in prison for his role in a deadly shooting in northern Colorado.
The Fort Collins Coloradoan reports Joshua Baker was sentenced Thursday after previously pleading guilty to aggravated robbery and being an accessory to a crime.
Judge Julie Field said Baker was less culpable than the others involved in robbing and killing Devon Smeltz in 2016, but he was still a “participant in those choices.”
Baker’s co-defendant, Lawrence Greggs, the shooter, was sentenced to 80 years in prison. Another co-defendant, Michael Gresham, received 57 years.
Greggs, Gresham and Baker drove from Cincinnati to meet Smeltz on Aug. 26, 2016, reportedly to buy cocaine. The deal ended in Smeltz’s death in a parking lot near Fort Collins.
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Information from: Fort Collins Coloradoan, http://www.coloradoan.com
