FORT COLLINS — An Ohio man has been sentenced to 80 years in prison for shooting and killing a man during a drug deal in northern Colorado.
The Fort Collins Coloradoan reports 21-year-old Lawrence Greggs, of Cincinnati, was sentenced Thursday for the Aug. 26, 2016, death of 20-year-old Devon Smeltz. Greggs previously pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and aggravated robbery.
Prosecutors say he and two other men from Cincinnati drove to Colorado to buy cocaine from Smeltz.
They met in a Walmart parking lot, where Greggs shot Smeltz several times. The three then dumped the Fort Collins man’s body in a field in northeastern Colorado.
Illinois state troopers stopped the men and found several items, including a loaded semi-automatic pistol covered in blood, Smeltz’s phone and wallet, as well as $11,400 worth of cocaine.
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Information from: Fort Collins Coloradoan, http://www.coloradoan.com
