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LIFE WITHOUT PAROLE RECOMMENDED FOR RICHMOND MURDERER

(Richmond, IN)--May 30 is the date that Michael Carr will be officially sentenced for shooting and killing Jason Lewis at the Genesis Apartments in Richmond five years ago.  A jury found Carr guilty of murder and has recommended that he spend the rest of his life in prison without parole.  Carr thought that Lewis had played a significant role is Carr’s drug-dealing conviction in 2013 and sought out Lewis after he was released from prison.  Carr had also been accused of trying to hire someone to kill five potential witnesses to the shooting.