Patrick Gilmore was a seventeen year old teen killer from Michigan who would murder another teen with a crossbow. According to court documents Patrick Gilmore would shoot and kill seventeen year old Lane Roslund in Hasting Michigan. Patrick Gilmore would bury the body of Lane Roslund in his backyard. The search for Roslund was over a month long before his body was finally found. Patrick Gilmore would be arrested and before his trial was set to begin would plead guilty to the brutal murder and be sentenced to life in prison
A shocking murder that was cold-blooded and calculated, according to Barry County prosecutors.
Patrick Gilmore, 18, showed little emotion over two hours Wednesday as he was sentenced to life in prison with no parole for killing Lane Roslund, 17, in Sept. 2021.
“Every court hearing we have sat here looking for justice or sign of remorse,” said Lane’s mother, Jenipher Roslund, during Gilmore’s sentencing Wednesday. “We see none. Not a tear, not a look of sadness.”
Gilmore was 17 years old when he killed teenager Lane Roslund with a crossbow and buried the teen’s body in his backyard, according to prosecutors.
In his sentencing decision, Judge Schipper determined Gilmore was irreparably corrupt and didn’t meet any non-life sentence criteria for a juvenile offender.
“I don’t think Lane will ever have a day to walk free, and I don’t think Mr. Gilmore should either,” said Barry County Circuit Court Judge Michael Schippers.
Lane Roslund’s parents described him as a loving teenager and the oldest of seven siblings. Jenipher Roslund, and Lane’s father, Michael Roslund, both cried as they delivered their victim impact statements in court.
“There’s been so much hurt in the family when you celebrate your son’s 18th birthday and he’s not there.”
Gilmore researched, planned and even asked his girlfriend for permission before the murder, said David Banister, Barry County chief assistant prosecutor.
A dispute over marijuana led to the killing, according to Banister.
“It’s 100 percent premeditated and done out of anger,” Banister said.
Police found Roslund’s remains in a shallow grave on Gilmore’s property on M-43 in Hastings Township Oct. 13.
For 32 days, Roslund’s family searched for him after he was reported missing around Sept. 10.
Gilmore told detectives he intentionally placed Roslund’s sweatshirt and belongings near the Thornapple River to trick investigators into thinking the teen drowned.
“We endured 32 days of hell,” Roslund said. “We stood nearly feet from my son’s dead body, while talking to the person who murdered my son.”
In March, Gilmore pleaded guilty to open murder and in exchange prosecutors dropped a charge of concealment of a body.
Gilmore declined to provide a statement during his sentencing.
“I don’t know whether he has words or could find words for you, your honor,” Gilmore’s attorney Carol Dwyer told Judge Schippers.
Dwyer argued Wednesday Gilmore should be released on parole after 25 years since he is a juvenile offender and suffered from alcohol and drug abuse.
“A lot can happen in 25 years that can inform us as to where’s there any justification or reason to take a chance on Patrick Gilmore and offer him parole,” Dwyer said.
Prosecutors argued Gilmore has not taken accountability for a long rap rap sheet in juvenile court dating back to 2017, when Gilmore was 13 years old.
“For the vast majority of the four and a half years he was in court, he was supervised, getting services, cared for by our court system,” Banister said.
Gilmore is currently on probation for a larceny. He has also been charged with killing animals, calling in fake bomb threats to school and making a false police report that he killed his parents.
“It’d be very difficult to predict recidivism in a youth that kills,” Judge Schippers said.
Patrick Gilmore was a seventeen teen killer from Michigan when he shot and killed another teenager with a crossbow. According to court documents Patrick Gilmore would fatally shoot Lane Roslund with a crossbow and would bury him in a shallow grave. The motive for the murder was never made clear.
This teen killer would eventually confess to police in killing Lane Roslund and would admit to putting the victim’s sweatshirt, cellphone and other belongings near a lake in the hope that police would believe that the seventeen year old victim drowned. Patrick Gilmore would lead police to Lane Roslund body. Patrick Gilmore would eventually plead guilty to first degree murder and may receive a life without parole sentence when his sentencing hearing comes up
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A Barry County teen who police say fatally shot a 17-year-old with a crossbow and then buried his body in a shallow grave has now pleaded guilty to open murder.
18-year-old Patrick Gilmore is set to be sentenced on Wednesday, May 25 for the September 2021 homicide of 17-year-old Lane Roslund.
Authorities say Gilmore was 17 years old at the time he committed the crime and was charged as an adult with open murder and concealment of a body.
A probable cause document filed in Barry County Circuit Court states that Gilmore told detectives he shot Roslund once in the chest with a crossbow on September 10, or September 11 in 2021.
Gilmore lead Michigan State Police to Roslund’s body which was buried behind his grandfather’s Hastings Township home on October 13, 2021.
The Barry County Prosecutor Julie Nakfoor Pratt said her office is pursuing a life sentence without the possibility of parole, but that because Gilmore was younger than 18 at the time of the crime, his defense team could argue for a lesser term.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that juveniles may not receive mandatory sentences of life without parole.
A Barry County teen pleaded guilty to killing another teenage boy in September 2021 with a crossbow before he admitted to burying his body in a shallow grave, according to court records.
The accused killer, 18-year-old Patrick Gilmore, admitted to police he tried to cover up the Sept. 2021 homicide of 17-year-old Lane Roslund, according to a probable cause document filed in Barry County Circuit Court.
Gilmore pleaded guilty to open murder in Barry County Circuit Court last Wednesday and will be sentenced May 25. Gilmore was 17 years old at the time of the killing and was charged as an adult with open murder and concealment of a body.
As part of the plea agreement, prosecutors dropped a charge of concealment of a body.
Gilmore told detectives he intentionally placed a sweatshirt, cell phone and bicycle belonging to Roslund in Hastings near the Thornapple River in an attempt to deceive investigators to follow an initial theory the teen drowned.
Detectives said Gilmore also wanted to direct attention away from his residence, located about two miles from Tyden Park, where Roslund was last seen alive.
Roslund had been missing for about a month after he was last seen in a downtown Hastings park, court records show.
Detectives said Gilmore lead Michigan State Police to Roslund’s decomposed body.
Detectives said they began to question Gilmore a month later after Roslund went missing when witnesses said Roslund was potentially headed to Gilmore’s house.
Hastings Police said Gilmore initially denied any involvement during questioning but later admitted he shot Roslund and buried him in a hole he dug on his grandfather’s property.
Investigators found two crossbows hanging in Gilmore’s basement. Detectives said one crossbow bolt without an attached broadhead was located in the woods near the burial site.
Muhammad Altantawi was sixteen years old when he murdered his mother in Michigan. According to court documents Muhammad Altantawi was upset that his mother was getting a divorce from his father and was worried that his father would suffer. Muhammad Altantawi would smother his mother before throwing her body out of a second story window and attempted to make it look like she accidentally fell. Muhammad Altantawi would be arrested, tried as an adult and convicted of murder. This teen killer would be sentenced to 35 to 60 years in prison
An Oakland Circuit Court jury deliberated less than three hours Monday before finding a 20-year-old Farmington Hills man guilty of first-degree premeditated murder of his mother four years ago and trying to make it look like an accidental fall.
Jurors sat through seven days of testimony in which the prosecution portrayed Muhammad Altantawi as a scheming teenager, angry at his mother for divorcing his father.
Only 16 years old at the time, Muhammad sided with his father Bassell Altantawi, then 46. He blamed his 35-year-old mother, Nada Huranieh, with splitting up their family with her rejection of traditional Syrian and Islamic customs, such as wearing a hijab and her perceived permissive raising of his two sisters, ages 12 and 14 at the time.
He believed his mother only wanted to take his father’s 11,000-square-foot mansion and money. The parents had married in 1999.
Investigators believe Muhammad Altantawi suffocated his mother, threw her body out a second-floor window of their home about 6 a.m. on August 21, 2017, and then staged it to look like an accidental fall.
Only Huranieh and her three children were in the home that night. Bassell was ordered out of the house in 2016 after a Valentine’s Day domestic-violence incident in which he pushed his wife down some stairs. She filed for divorce the following month.
In a two-hour closing argument Monday, assistant prosecuting attorney John Skrzynski said the youth’s own lies, missteps in police interviews, phone records and scene evidence are proof he killed his mother, possibly first rendering her helpless with a chemical inhalant of some kind.
Skrzynski told jurors how:
♦Muhammad Altantawi spied on his mother the days and weeks leading up to the death and texted his father photos of receipts, including a deed to a second house she had bought and a photo of the window she fell or was pushed out.
Muhammad told police he didn’t get up until after 6 a.m. the morning his mother died, but phone records revealed he had received or made numerous calls to his father beginning at 4:30 a.m.
♦The body’s lifeless position on the ground was not consistent with a fall from the window.
♦Video from six home surveillance cameras appeared to show someone moving around the house in different rooms and “hoisting” a body out the window of a make-up room.
♦A tile-cleaning substance and bucket found on a ladder near the window would have been disturbed if Huranieh’s legs had kicked out from the rungs.
♦He changed his story on his location and times in the house when it didn’t conform with lighted rooms in the surveillance video.
♦His sister said he always showered at night but that morning she heard him showering around 6 a.m.
♦Clothes and a rubber mat were found the day of the death in a laundry room washing machine which had automatically shut off. The next day the mat had been removed and put in a plastic bag inside a hamper under clothes.
Oakland County Medical Examiner Ljubisa Dragovic testified an autopsy revealed that Huranieh, a health club fitness instructor, was smothered with a damp cloth or towel and likely dead before ever going out the window.
But one of Altantawi’s defense lawyers, Michael Schiano, argued their young client had neither motivation nor the physical strength to accomplish a crime he described as based on nothing more than speculative theory in an otherwise “pristine” crime scene with no signs of struggle.
He noted there was “no blood, no DNA on anything, no direct evidence” linking his client to the death.
“What he is describing, including chloroform is more like a James Bond film,” Schiano said in his one-hour closing argument. “Nothing like that was ever found in the house or in her. It doesn’t exist.
“He (prosecutor) wants you to believe this or that is possible,” Schiano told the jury. “Don’t do it. Your job is to consider facts, not possibilities.”
Witnesses, including Altantawi’s sister, Aya Altantawi, now 20, who testified her brother was becoming increasingly upset about their mother – whom he called “not a good Muslim” and referenced as a “dog” on his cellphone. He was also concerned his father might go to prison for insurance fraud, aided by his mother’s pending deposition in the case.
In 2016, Bassell Altantawi was charged by the Michigan State Attorney General with Medicare fraud at his Urgent Care Clinic in Canton. That March he entered a guilty plea to counts of Medicaid fraud false claims and two counts of health care fraud, which are felonies that can carry up to four years in prison.
He was spared prison time but had his physician’s license suspended in February 2017 and was required to and did pay $277,953 in restitution, according to a spokesperson in the state attorney general office.
According to divorce filings, Altantawi – who once had an annual income in excess of $350,000 – found himself unable to work as a physician and subsequently meet support payments for his estranged wife and three children or “no longer able to support them in their lavish lifestyle” in Farmington Hills
When his mother told him two weeks before her death that she was going to send him to live with his father, Muhammad Altantawi said “You are going to get what’s coming to you.”
The offense carries life in prison without parole. Defense attorneys could not be immediately reached for comment.
A judge sentenced a Farmington Hills man convicted of killing his mom on Wednesday to at least 35 years in prison after he was found guilty by a jury in March of first-degree premeditated murder.
Muhammad Altantawi was 16 at the time he pushed his mom out of a window. After four hours, Altantawi was ultimately sentenced to 35 to 60 years in prison after he was convicted in March of the 2017 murder
After the sentencing, someone from the gallery told Altantwai to “have fun rotting in prison, murderer. I hope you die there too.” More conversation erupted from the gallery but was quickly shut down by deputies in the court.
He arrived in court shortly after 1:30 p.m. without an attorney and objected to the entire pre-sentencing report, paragraph-by-paragraph. The judge ruled she would not strike anything from the report.
He also argued with the written victim impact statements, which at that time had not yet been read in court. The county prosecutor objected and said that there was no legal basis to allow the challenge of the victim impact statements.
The judge sided with the prosecution and would not allow the challenges
Altantawi was chided by the judge several times for interrupting her when she tried to rule on his challenges.
He also claimed bigotry and racism by the prosecutor’s office, which drew an immediate objection from the Oakland County Prosecutor’s Office, who claimed Altantawi would need mental health services.
The judge asked Altantawi about his Muslim upbringing, to which Altantawi said his family moved to the U.S. from Syria. She suggested changing the text to ‘the defendants’ parents were Muslim’ but Altantawi objected to the relevancy of it being included in the sentencing.
The judge ultimately agreed to remove the sentence completely but questioned the relationship between Altantawi and his father. She said it was pertinent because of the pending divorce.
Altantawi had been angry with his 35-year-old Nada Houranieh for divorcing his father, blaming her for causing their family to become split.
After almost two hours of challenges from Altantawi, the last of which was the omission of the word ‘road’ on his street address, his sister read an impact statement on behalf of the family asking for him to be sentenced to life in prison for ending Houranieh’s life.
She had asked that her personal impact statement not be aired.
Altantawi’s father, who had been charged with domestic violence of Houranieh, then spoke. He discussed his relationship with his wife but was chastised by the judge for discussing his son as the victim.
“You can stand by him but that’s not what a victim impact statement is about,” the judge said.
His father changed his tone, calling his wife’s death ‘tragic’ and says the prosecution manipulated his mentally-challenged daughter to testify against his son. The judge then ordered him to sit down, prompting another outburst from Altantawi.
The family then left the courtroom, which led to an outburst in the hallway. The judge ordered Altantawi to address the court one final time.
“Five years ago, I got arrested for – what I said – the worst crime, the murder of my mother,” Altantawi said, while denying he smothered and killed his mother.
According to investigators, Altantawi suffocated his mom, before throwing her out of the third-floor window of the family’s home in Farmington Hills in the summer of 2017.
Altantawi spoke again, saying that the prosecution offered him a plea deal of 10 years in prison, to which he said he was offended by, on his mother’s behalf.
“It would have allowed this first-degree murderer…to have gotten off for five more years,” he said.
Altantawi spoke for another 20 minutes or so and said that all that mattered was his mother, who was ‘taken away’.
The county prosecutor argued that she wasn’t ‘taken away’ but that Altantawi murdered her, which the jury decided upon after only two hours of deliberation.
“This was a hit on a witness,” the prosecution argued. “(she) was to testify at a deposition against her husband.”
The prosecutor argued that Altantawi’s father was facing prison time for embezzlement and that Altantawi killed her for that reason.
The prosecution asked for 40 to 80 years in prison for Altantawi.
The judge described the sentencing as difficult and said, despite Altantawi’s claims of innocence, she must treat him as guilty since that is how the jury ruled.
“Under our law, he was found guilty, and the court is treating him as he was found guilty of committing murder,” she said.
She said, after hearing the past four hours of the hearing, that Altantawi believed he was the victim in the crime.
Ultimately, she sentenced him to 35 to 60 years in prison, with credit for time served.
He was arraigned on Aug. 28 of 2017 on a second-degree murder charge before it was amended to a premeditation count after a medical examiner’s report determined Houranieh died from asphyxiation, while blunt force trauma contributed to her death.
Megan Imirowicz is an eighteen year old woman from Michigan who attacked her father with drain cleaner back in October 2021 and now that her father just passed from the injuries he sustained she is now charged with murder. According to police reports Megan Imirowicz would pour drain cleaner over her father and then doused him with water causing severe burns. Megan Imirowicz would flee the residence however a neighbor would see her father lying on the couch and call 911. Megan father would be rushed to the hospital and would remain in care until his death a few days ago. Megan Imirowicz was initially charged with assault however since the death of her father the charges have been upgraded to murder.
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A man who suffered severe chemical burns when he daughter allegedly poured drain cleaner on him in October died last week.
Michigan State Police say the charges filed against 18-year-old Megan Joyce Imirowicz have been upgraded to murder. She was arrested again and taken to the Oakland County Jail.
Investigators say the alleged attack happened over six months ago on Oct. 1, 2021, when Imirowicz poured lye drain cleaner all over her father and then doused him in water inside a residence in Groveland Township south of Grand Blanc.
The resulting chemical reaction left him with severe burns on his head, torso, arms and legs.
A neighbor found the victim lying on a couch in the residence and he was rushed to Ascension Genesys Hospital. He remained hospitalized since the incident until he died last week, according to Michigan State Police.
Imirowicz initially was arraigned on charges of with domestic violence and assault with intent to do great bodily harm. She was free on bond when her father died and prosecutors upgraded the charges to murder.
A Michigan State Police fugitive apprehension team found Imirowicz and arrested her again last week. She was brought back to the Oakland County Jail, where she remains in custody with no bond offered while awaiting further court proceedings.
A father is dead today after he and his daughter got into an argument and she threw drain cleaner on him.
On October 1st, 2021, troopers responded to an aggravated assault complaint in Groveland Township where a suspect, Megan Joyce Imirowicz, an 18-year-old woman, threw drain cleaner on her father causing significant injuries.
She was charged with Domestic Violence and Assault With Intent to Do Great Bodily Harm. She was out on bond and her location was not known. The victim in this case has been hospitalized since the incident occurred. He died from his injuries this week.
The trooper in charge of this investigation resubmitted a investigators report and the prosecutor amended the charges to homicide. The Fugitive Team quickly located the suspect and arrested her.
She will be lodged at OCJ pending court proceedings.
Derek Horton is a man from Battle Creek Michigan who just led police to the remains of Amber Griffin. According to police reports Amber Griffin went missing two years ago and her boyfriend Derek Horton was always the main suspect in her disappearance. Derek Horton would lead Battle Creek police to a shallow grave where the remains that were found are believed to be Amber Griffin. Derek Horton who has been charged with murder was in the middle of a trial when he suddenly changed his plea to guilty and as part of the agreement led police to her body. Derek Horton is now facing up to life in prison
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Police in Battle Creek are continuing their search for a missing woman’s body.
The search comes after the man accused of killing his girlfriend pleaded no contest to second-degree murder, Calhoun County Prosecutor David Gilbert confirmed to FOX 17.
As part of the plea agreement, the open murder charge was dropped, Gilbert confirms. He also says Horton agreed to lead investigators to Griffin’s body.
The Battle Creek Police Department says they were unable to locate Griffin after a search of an area on Battle Creek’s north side on Wednesday. Police resumed the search Thursday morning.
FOX 17 spoke with Amber Griffin’s mom on Wednesday. She says she searched that area several times in the past
Prosecutors say the plea deal will be dropped if police are unable to find her.
Battle Creek Police confirmed they found the likely remains of Amber Griffin following a two-day search Thursday afternoon.
The skeletal remains were dug up three feet underground in the woods south of Waubascon Road between Limit Street and Hubbard Street around 1:45 p.m. Thursday. Griffin’s boyfriend, Derek Horton, led police to the body as part of a plea deal struck on the second day of his murder trial for Griffin’s killing.
“It’s very gratifying, it’s something we wanted to accomplish from the beginning,” Battle Creek Police Lt. Joel Case said during a Thursday afternoon news conference.
Officers were taken to Griffin’s apparent after Horton, 27, agreed to reveal her body’s location as part of a plea deal.
Horton pleaded no contest to second degree murder Wednesday, which carries a minimum sentence of 15 years. The plea deal is contingent on finding Griffin’s remains. Griffin was reported missing by her mother on June 24, 2020.
Case said Horton pointed to four locations police sectioned off as part of their search efforts. Police said they discovered the remains at the third site they searched.
Excavators and two Michigan State Police K-9 cadaver dog’s were brought in to speed up the search efforts Thursday.
“Even when we brought (Horton) out there things don’t look exactly the same. It’s not like you can say, ‘X marks the spot right there.’ Unfortunately with the fact that it’s been almost two years now, you have leaves that have fallen, you have different foliage, you have two winters that have passed now,” Case said
Medical examiners still need to confirm the remains they found are Griffin’s. Police said those will be done with DNA or dental records since the body is decomposed.
Investigators said they notified Griffin’s mother about the developments. “She’s emotional, but she’s happy,” said Case.
Case said finding Griffin’s body and a successful prosecution for her murder were the results they were looking for from the beginning.
In 2020, police theorized Griffin was buried, but didn’t know where. Dozens of searches were conducted prior to the ones conducted Wednesday and Thursday. Volunteer groups, search and rescue teams, helicopters, drones and cadaver dogs were all deployed with no luck.
Investigators had previously searched an abandoned home at 157 Waubascon Rd. in 2020 after Griffin was reported missing. At that time, police said they found a pair of women’s pants with Griffin’s blood on them.
Police also located drag marks that took them to a nearby trail where investigators found a receipt for a shovel. The receipt was dated June 23, 2020 at 2:31 p.m., about 12 hours after prosecutors said a 911 call was made from Griffin’s phone.
Griffin was last seen alive while at a house party on Oneita Street with Horton. Prosecutors said Griffin made a 911 call from a home at 266 Oneita Street around 2 a.m. June 23, 2020, but the call was quickly disconnected.
Prosecutors claimed the 911 audio recoding captured Horton assaulting Griffin following an argument. Griffin’s blood was found on all three levels of the home, police said.
The Oneita Street home is owned by the same man who owned the abandoned property on Waubascon Road.
Haggerty, 29, was charged with tampering with evidence and lying to police in July 2020. Police said Haggerty drove Horton to a hardware store on June 23, 2020 to buy the shovel police believe Horton used to bury Griffin’s body.
Haggerty is set to appear for a pre-trial hearing in Calhoun County District Court April 12.
Case declined to comment on Haggerty or anyone else’s involvement in helping Horton.
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