Iowa Man Pleads Not Guilty in 2012 Home Invasion Killing

NEW HAMPTON, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man has pleaded not responsible to first-degree homicide within the decade-old dwelling invasion shotgun dying of a rural Nashua man.

Randy Lee Patrie, 49, pleaded not responsible earlier this week within the October 2012 dying of 70-year-old Carl Gallmeyer, tv station KIMT reported.

A couple of 12 months after Gallmeyer’s dying, a tv, weapons and instruments stolen from his dwelling had been present in Patrie’s dwelling. Patrie pleaded responsible to federal gun expenses within the case and was sentenced in 2014 to life in jail as a routine offender, however that sentence was decreased to twenty years on attraction.

In January, state prosecutors charged Patrie in Gallmeyer’s killing. No trial date has been set, and a public defender has been appointed to signify Patrie.

Investigators imagine Patrie broke into Gallmeyer’s dwelling in September 2012 and shot the retired grocer whereas he slept earlier than ransacking the house.

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