Man gets 46-60 years for killing Detroit officer, 2nd man

DETROIT (AP) — A person who killed a Detroit police officer and one other man over 4 days was sentenced Wednesday to 46-60 years in jail.

JuJuan Parks, 32, pleaded responsible to 2 counts of second-degree homicide in reference to the unrelated 2019 deaths of Officer Rasheen McClain and Nathaniel Loyd. Fees in reference to the dying of a second man had been dismissed below a plea settlement.

Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor Matthew Penney learn a letter written by McClain’s widow, Heidi McClain, who was current throughout the sentencing however didn’t converse. She stated Parks had given her a “lifetime sentence of ache and grief.”

“I’ll by no means perceive or settle for how an individual will be so evil with a lot hate of their coronary heart that they’ll take an individual’s life,” Heidi McClain wrote.

Evan Callahan, Parks’ lawyer, stated he believes his consumer is “extraordinarily remorseful” for his actions. Callahan stated Parks seeks forgiveness from the households of the three males he killed.

Parks declined to talk throughout the listening to.

McClain was shot within the neck Nov. 20, 2019, and later died at a hospital. His accomplice, Officer Phillippe Batoum-Bisse, was shot within the leg as he, McClain and two different officers descended basement stairs to search for Parks.