MARINETTE, WI (WTAQ) – A Pembine man has pleaded to a reduced charge in connection to his wife’s killing.
On Thursday, 56-year-old Gary Rogge pleaded no contest to a count of first-degree reckless homicide for the January 13 shooting death of Shelley Erickson-Rogge.
Court records show that Rogge will be sentenced on October 14.
He previously had been charged with intentional homicide and the reduced count means that instead of a mandatory life prison sentence, Rogge faces up to 60 years in prison.
According to the criminal complaint, Rogge gave several different stories to police about how the shooting could have been accidental, but the evidence at the scene and the autopsy contradict those versions.
