COLUMBUS – A 17-year-old boy will be sentenced to life in prison with no chance for parole for 18 years in the fatal shooting last year of a pizza delivery driver in Columbus.
The teen (above, left) pleaded guilty Wednesday in adult court to murder with a gun specification in the death of James A. Crabtree Jr., 45 (above, right). He’ll be sentenced Sept. 16.
The Columbus Dispatch reports that the boy was 16 at the time of the killing on Oct. 29.
Authorities say Crabtree was shot seven times as he sat in his car in front of a house on the city’s east side where he had gone to make a delivery for Grandma’s Pizza. He died at the scene.
A neighbor led police to the teen at a house next door.