GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) – The man convicted of killing Thomas Wick and causing the drug overdose death of Spencer Patz will spend more than five decades in prison.
31-year-old Matthew Moore was sentenced in Brown County court on Friday.
“I just want to apologize to both families that are here today,” Moore said during his sentencing hearing, according to FOX 11. “No family should have to experience what you have. I’d like to apologize to my family as well to the shame and embarrassment this has caused them”
Moore had pled no contest to killing Wick inside his Howard home back on February 27, 2012. Prosecutors agreed to a plea deal which allowed Moore to enter his plea to a reduced charge of first-degree reckless homicide.
Moore and his fiancé, Katie Heller, apparently owed Wick money after he sold them a house. Wick was shot 4 times. Heller was sentenced last week to 21 years in prison.
Moore also pled no contest to charges in connection to Patz’s drug overdose death on May 5, 2013. He also entered that plea to a charge of conspiracy to commit perjury.
As part of the plea deal, prosecutors have agreed to recommend Moore be sentenced to 40 years in prison for the Wick homicide, and be sentenced to five years in the Patz case, to be served at the same time.
The judge, however, decided to sentence Moore to 40 years in prison and 20 years extended supervision for the Wick homicide, and 10 years in prison and 5 extended supervision for the Patz death.
A sentence of 3 years in prison and three years extended supervision for the perjury conviction.
