INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A Plainfield man on Tuesday pleaded guilty but mentally ill during the second day of his trial in the murder of a 77-year-old woman in 2024 at an Indianapolis mobile home community.
Zakii Dawson will turn 21 just 10 days before his sentencing March 4 in Marion Superior Court 21. He’s expected to receive a 45-year prison sentence.
Dawson, who was 18 when arrested, was charged with killing Mary Sims. She’d let Dawson reside inside her home “to help him get back on his feet,” said a news release issued Tuesday from the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office…