Man gets prison for 2022 murder in Kalamazoo Township

KALAMAZOO TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) — A man will spend decades in prison after a jury found him guilty of murder in the 2022 death of a man whose body was found in a Kalamazoo Township home during a house fire.

2 charged with murder of man found after June fire

Andrew McCormack was sentenced to 45 to 70 years in prison for second-degree murder and 15 to 30 years for tampering with evidence, according to the Township of Kalamazoo Police Department. A jury found McCormack guilty of the charges in March.

The charges stem from a 2022 house fire where the body of 53-year-old James Travis was found inside a home on Shakespeare Avenue and Egleston Drive in Kalamazoo Township during a house fire on June 18. Police called his death ‘suspicious’ and later ruled it a homicide.

Woman pleads to murder in 2022 death near Kalamazoo

Shawna Fay Kroeger was also charged with felony murder, armed robbery, second-degree arson and tampering with evidence in Travis’s death. She pleaded guilty in March to second-degree murder and second degree arson and sentenced to between 18 and 30 years for the murder charge and between 12 and 20 years for arson…

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