Jeremiah Pepper, 21, was sentenced to 40 years in prison after he stabbed a friend who had slept in his car overnight.
On Aug. 10, 2016, discovering that had slept there overnight, according to a statement from District Attorney George Brauchler’s office. The two used to work together at a local fast-food restaurant. An argument broke out.
“Whatap clear to me is that this was a young man who could not control his anger,” Arapahoe District Judge Phillip Douglass said, according to the statement. “This is the most serious offense there can be — a life was taken. … You committed a heinous crime.”
Pepper entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder on July 6. Senior Deputy District Attorney Cori Alcock asked the court for the maximum allowed. Pepper was sentenced to five years of mandatory parole on top of his 40 years in the Department of Corrections.
“It was a simple argument and should not have resulted in the death of a young man with his life ahead of him,” she told the court, according to the statement.
