WICHITA, Kan. — A man has been sentenced to more than 46 years in prison for a 2018 homicide at a west Wichita motel.
Prosecutors said in a news release that District Judge Bruce Brown handed down the punishment Monday to 25-year-old Cory Bentley of Wichita. Bentley plead guilty to second-degree murder in May for the shooting death of 43-year-old Jackie Jerome of Wichita. He was shot on Oct. 18, 2018, in the parking lot of the Delux Inn in Wichita.
The judge also ordered Bentley to pay $760 for Jerome’s funeral as well as $500 in expenses to the victim’s son who traveled from Iowa after learning of his father’s murder.
