BRIGHAM CITY, Utah (TCN) — A 60-year-old man will spend a most of 30 years in jail for killing a 19-year-old whose farm he lived and labored on.
KSL-TV experiences a choose sentenced James Brenner to at least one to fifteen years in jail for 2 counts of homicide, which shall be served consecutively, for killing Dylan Rounds in 2022. His sentencing additionally pertains to fees of two counts of possession of a firearm by a restricted individual.
Rounds disappeared Might 26, 2022, after he ate at a restaurant in Montello, Nevada, earlier than returning to Utah. He reportedly made a cellphone name on Might 28, 2022, however was not heard from after that. He was then reported lacking to the Field Elder County Sheriff’s Workplace. A number of months after his disappearance, the FBI launched an announcement saying investigators have been “centered on the potential for Dylan being the sufferer of a criminal offense,” whereas additionally naming Brenner as a suspect in his disappearance. He was taken into custody on unrelated federal gun fees.
Brenner was arrested March 3, 2023, in Field Elder County on fees of aggravated homicide and abuse or desecration of a corpse, although the teenager’s stays had not but been discovered. KSL experiences Brenner revealed to regulation enforcement in April the place he buried Rounds’ physique.
Brenner ended up taking a plea take care of prosecutors in Might 2024, and as a part of it, he was required to disclose the place he buried Rounds’ physique. His stays have been positioned and positively recognized in April 2024. In line with the Field Elder County Lawyer’s Workplace, prosecutors diminished Brenner’s aggravated homicide cost to second-degree homicide and dismissed the rely of desecration of human stays. As well as, he pleaded responsible to the gun fees.
One of many household’s advocates from the Lacking in America Community spoke at Brenner’s sentencing and known as Rounds a “dreamer, a builder, a visionary.”
She mentioned, “His spirit was as vibrant and enduring because the sunflowers he cherished.”
The choose advised Brenner that when he’s up for parole, he’ll inform the parole board “that they maintain you so long as they’ll.”
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