Utah
Utahn who murdered weeks after being paroled sent back to prison for 25 years to life
Ryan Joseph Sprint, 35, was sentenced Wednesday to 25 years to life in jail after capturing and killing a person in 2020, simply three weeks after he had been launched from jail. (Weber County Sheriff’s Workplace)
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OGDEN — Second District Choose Cristina Ortega stated two phrases got here to thoughts whereas studying the pre-sentence report for Ryan Joseph Sprint: “executed” and “ambush.”
“This offense is clearly an instance of maximum cruelty and depravity,” she stated of the homicide he dedicated simply three weeks after Sprint was launched from the Utah State Jail in early 2020.
Sprint, 35, was despatched again to jail Wednesday for a time period of 25 years to life for capturing and killing Dalton Wooden, 29, of Harrisville. He pleaded responsible to aggravated homicide as a part of a plea deal. In alternate, prosecutors dropped expenses of possession of a harmful weapon and obstructing justice.
Ortega additionally sentenced Sprint in a separate case to serve a concurrent sentence of 1 to fifteen years on a cost of theft, amended from a first-degree felony to a second-degree felony as a part of a plea deal.
Sprint declined to talk when given the chance Wednesday. A letter from a member of the family of the sufferer was learn in court docket that stated, “I see no regret from you. I hope you get a life sentence since you’ve already sentenced my household to life.”
On Feb. 8, 2020, North Ogden police have been referred to as to a report of a person laying on the street at 432 E. 1700 North. Wooden had been shot twice, as soon as within the chest and in his decrease extremities.
Throughout an interview with detectives, Sprint stated he had earlier assaulted Wooden’s brother, and due to that, Wooden threatened him.
“They organized to satisfy at a location in North Ogden. Sprint said that (Wooden) was alone, and that (Wooden) had his fingers in his pocket. He admitted that (Wooden) didn’t brandish a weapon. Sprint said that he then ‘killed the (expletive),’” based on charging paperwork.
4 days earlier than the killing, a bunch of males stole a secure from a lady staying at a West Haven care heart. Sprint was current when the secure was reduce open and three weapons have been discovered inside. Two of the weapons used within the killing got here from that secure, based on charging paperwork.
Sprint has been out and in of jail since 2008 on varied expenses and returned for parole violations a number of occasions. His different convictions embody theft, possession of a forgery machine and drug possession.
In 2014, Sprint was charged with aggravated assault of a fellow inmate on the Utah State Jail. In that case, Sprint’s cellmate suffered 11 “slices and punctures that required stitches or staples, 4 within the head, six on his again and one on his chest,” based on charging paperwork.
Sprint’s facial tattoos embody the phrases “white energy,” a swastika and “14 88” — numeric symbols utilized by white supremacists.
Brian Christopher Jenson, 31, of Brigham Metropolis, was additionally convicted of manslaughter in reference to Wooden’s loss of life and within the gun theft.
Jenson was current when Wooden was killed however claimed he was solely armed with brass knuckles. He denied firing any weapons himself, which court docket paperwork say “contradicts different info obtained in the middle of this investigation.”
He was sentenced to 2 phrases of 1 to fifteen years in jail for manslaughter and obstructing justice and a time period of 1 to 5 years on a firearms cost. Ortega ordered these sentences to run concurrently with a federal case through which Jenson was sentenced to seven years in jail for distributing methamphetamine. She additionally sentenced him to a consecutive time period of 1 to fifteen years in jail for theft