Man who gunned down father of 2 outside AMC movie theater appears on smaller screen to learn fate

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Deshawndre Brown, Ethan Stenftenagel

Inset (left): Deshawndre Brown (Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office). Inset (right): Ethan Stenftenagel (Titzer Family Funeral Homes). Background: News footage of the country extracurricular the AMC movie theatre successful Evansville, Ind. (WEHT).

An Indiana antheral who fled the authorities aft fatally shooting a antheral extracurricular a movie theatre volition enactment enactment for a while.

Deshawndre Brown, 19, was sentenced to 45 years successful situation aft helium pleaded blameworthy to murder and robbery resulting successful superior bodily wounded successful transportation with the decease of 23-year-old Ethan Stenftenagel. According to the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office, Brown was one of 3 men charged with Stenftenagel's killing, on with 18-year-old Pierce Butler and Kardae Langley, whose property was not provided.

Police said they responded to an AMC movie theatre successful Evansville, Indiana, connected the nighttime of April 14 aft reports of shots fired. When they arrived, they recovered a achromatic Dodge Durango astatine the bottommost of a wooded embankment. A antheral victim, aboriginal identified arsenic Stenftenagel, was wrong the vehicle, dormant from gunshot wounds.

Local ABC affiliate WEHT reported connected Brown's sentencing hearing, which took spot connected Monday. The outlet reported that Stenftenagel and the 3 different men got into an statement implicit stolen vapes portion successful the movie theatre parking lot. WFIE, a section NBC affiliate that besides covered the sentencing, reported that the combat was a cause deal gone awry.

Police said each 3 men fled the country aft the shooting. Langley was arrested the aforesaid night; Brown was tracked to a edifice successful St. Louis, Missouri, the adjacent day. Butler was recovered successful a location and arrested the nighttime of April 15.

According to reporting connected the sentencing hearing, Brown requested to be his sentencing via video and did not supply immoderate further statements. WEHT spoke with Greg Davis, the begetter of Stenftenagel's fiancee, who called Brown's determination to look remotely an enactment of "cowardice." He told WEHT, "There was nary apology. There was nary remorse. … It is beauteous disappointing that that's not idiosyncratic taking accountability for their actions."

Stenftenagel's fiancee, Hope Davis, who is the parent of the couple's 2 children, said, "Ethan was not a cleanable person, but helium did not person to beryllium cleanable and merit to live." She added, "My oldest [child] mightiness person the accidental to retrieve immoderate of the memories, but for our son, he'll spell done his beingness learning pictures, videos and stories. It's incredibly unfair to them."

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Brown was sentenced to 45 years successful situation for the execution complaint and 16 years for the robbery charge, to beryllium served concurrently. As portion of his plea deal, 1 number each of execution and equipped robbery was dismissed.

Langley and Butler are some charged with murder, equipped robbery and robbery resulting successful superior bodily injury. Langley is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Nov. 18; Butler has a tribunal quality scheduled for Dec. 21.

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