GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The plea hearing for Percy Sims, the suspect in the June 8 murder of Krystal Torres-Smith at the Lambeau Cottage parking lot at UW-Green Bay, was delayed Tuesday until next week.
Sims is charged with first-degree intentional homicide. A plea hearing was scheduled for today but did not happen because the defense was not ready to proceed.
Family members of Torres-Smith were visibly upset in court but declined to comment about the delay.
No details of the proposed plea deal were discussed in court.
According to police, Torres-Smith was meeting Sims to sell him marijuana. Instead, police believe Sims killed her at close range, took her cellphone and her pot.
Sims later admitted to the shooting. Court documents show Sims told a friend “he was only going to rob her, but realized she knew too many of the same people that he knew.”
Sims was released from prison in April 2014 for armed robbery with the threat of force in the Milwaukee area.
