MADRAS, Ore. (AP) - A 21-year-old central Oregon man has been sentenced to two terms of life in prison without parole for the shooting deaths of his two roommates last year.
KTVZ-TV reported (https://bit.ly/2mX4U1d) Wednesday that Mitchell Julio Morris of Crooked River Ranch was sentenced and ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution to the victims’ families.
Police had received a report in February 2016 of gunshots at a home and arrived to find a man and a woman dead. The victims were 18-year-old Bailee Ray Southwick and 21-year-old Mackenzie Lyman.
Morris fled the scene and was arrested the following day in Salem.
Morris has not said why he shot both his roommates with a rifle three times but he told investigators he was not arguing with them before the killing.
He did not give a statement during Wednesday’s hearing.
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Information from: KTVZ-TV, https://www.ktvz.com/
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