Posted on 03/17/2002 7:27:57 PM PST by chance33_98
MILWAUKEE -- The mother of a teen-ager who fatally shot a neighbor was sentenced to 18 months in prison for helping to bury the 15-year-old girl's body.
Vrana, 41, was sentenced to prison despite the dead girl's mother pleading for a sentence of community service.
Vrana, who pleaded guilty in January to hiding a corpse, must serve 18 months of community supervision after she completes her truth-in-sentencing term.
Brian Vrana, now 16, was sentenced last month to five years in prison and 11 years of community supervision.
Brian Vrana, who was 14 at the time of the girl's death, pleaded guilty to a charge of second-degree reckless homicide while armed in the July 13, 2000, shooting death of Angela Velzka-Lawrence, 15.
He shot and killed her with a gun he said he thought was unloaded, while the teens were partying in his home.
After the shooting, Brian Vrana, his mother, another teen-ager and family friend Shane Pfennig, loaded the body into a van and drove north, where they buried it in Marinette County.
Pfennig, 25, of South Milwaukee, pleaded guilty to hiding a corpse. He was sentenced in November to one year in jail and five years of probation.
The other teen-age boy is awaiting prosecution in children's court.
After the body was buried, the disappearance of Velzka-Lawrence remained a mystery until July 2001, when Pfennig helped lead police to the girl's shallow grave.
Authorities said at least 13 people knew of the girl' s fate but kept the death a secret until Pfennig and another person came forward.
I respectfully request that you stop making conservatives look so stupid.
The dead girl's mother was in on this too????
Also known as, "The queer that made Milwaukee famous."
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Sure, once the ideologues stop with their endless conspiracy rants and pro-drug drivel. We'll be watching for your respectful requests there.
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