A teenager who killed a man and then set his body and car on fire beneath the Veterans’ Glass City Skyway 18 months ago received a 25-year prison term Friday after pleading guilty to reduced charges.
“There is nothing rational about what transpired,” Judge Dean Mandros said in Lucas County Common Pleas Court before imposing the agreed-upon sentence on Kristaun Self, 17, for the Nov. 8, 2023, death of Josiah Gill, 20.
“There is something missing from many of the youth in this country and in this community,” the judge said. “I don’t know how they become so hollowed out that they think nothing of putting a bullet into another human being.”…