KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MI — A Kalamazoo man was sentenced to 23 to 50 years in jail for a 2021 homicide in Kalamazoo Township.
Jayshaun Bishop, 24, appeared in Kalamazoo’s Ninth Circuit Court on Monday, Sept. 18, after pleading responsible to second-degree homicide and felony firearms within the September 2021 murder of Collin Mitchell, the Township of Kalamazoo Police Department stated in a information launch.
Bishop was sentenced Monday to 23 to 50 years in jail for second-degree homicide. He was sentenced to 2 years in jail for felony firearm. He appeared in entrance of the Hon. Judge Ken Barnard Monday, police stated.
The firearm sentence will probably be served earlier than the homicide sentence begins, as a part of the plea settlement.
Mitchell, 23, a Kalamazoo Township resident, was killed in a capturing at 12:20 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021, at LakeView Apartments within the 1900 block of Elkerton Avenue, police stated on the time of his loss of life.
Officers discovered him lifeless on the bottom outdoors his condominium with an obvious gunshot wound. Medical personnel had been known as to reply. Despite rescue efforts, the topic was pronounced lifeless on the scene.
Bishop believed Mitchell had stolen his canine, based on a possible trigger affidavit filed Aug. 19, 2022, in district courtroom. Bishop confessed to 2 those that he had shot Mitchell due to the canine, however he denied being concerned when speaking to police, the affidavit stated.
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