GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The suspect in a 2015 murder on Green Bay’s east side pleaded out on Monday as jury selection was scheduled to start.
Antwon Powell killed David Shorter on December 3, 2015, at a duplex on Bellevue Street.
Powell has entered an Alford plea, meaning he maintains his innocence, but acknowledges the state has enough evidence for a conviction.
The plea will reduce his charge from an intentional homicide count to reckless homicide, according to a court official.
Sentencing is scheduled for March 27 and trial was set to last all week, according to court records.
Powell had accused Shorter of breaking into his home and stealing money and marijuana earlier that day, according to the criminal record. The criminal complaint states that the two argued back and forth on the phone throughout the day and at night Powell went to Shorter’s home on Bellevue Street and shot him when he went outside for a cigarette.
