KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Two Michigan men who admitted to beating a homeless man with a sledgehammer have been sentenced.
Tuesday, Zachary Trainor and Bryan Wimbley were ordered to serve 15-30 years each in prison, about a month after both pleaded guilty to second-degree murder on Dec. 20, according to Kalamazoo County Chief Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Jeff D. Williams.
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Just over two years prior, Lashaun Keith’s body was discovered by hunters scouting land near Kal-Haven Trail in November 2022.
Although a pair of gloves with DNA evidence led detectives to a third, unnamed person involved in the murder, other evidence left behind in the Van Buren County field resulted in charges against the pair, News Channel 3 previously reported.
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Before he died, Keith, 33, was homeless and living under a bridge near Kalamazoo’s Wings Event Center.
At the time, the area was a construction site where Trainor, of Watervliet, and Wimbley, of Hartford, were working at, and Keith was “antagonistic to himself and other construction workers,” court documents detailed…