"I’m getting sick of sentencing people for homicides," said Judge Jeffrey Reed of Allen County Common Pleas Court. "Taking into consideration this offense and lack of adult record, I’ll accept the stipulated sentence. Defendant will be sentenced to four years in prison, it’s not mandatory, on count two kidnapping charge. Defendant will be sentenced to eight years on count three. It’s not mandatory. He will be sentenced for three years on a firearm specification which is mandatory."
21-year-old Collin Dysert was sentenced Monday to a total of 15 years in prison to be served consecutively. On January 29th, Dysert agreed to a plea deal accepting guilt to one count of kidnapping and one count of involuntary manslaughter with a gun specification. The charges of trafficking drugs and murder were dropped in the agreement.
Dysert was involved in the incident that led up to the murder of Damere Oliphant in March 2016. Dysert said that he was the one who facilitated a drug deal with Oliphant and Dysert’s two friends, Gavin Lauck and Dalton Duncan. Dysert said although he didn’t pull the trigger, the gun used was his. He purchased the AK-47 three weeks prior for protection. Dysert’s attorney Greg Donohue said this was an unusual situation for Dysert while prosecution said otherwise.
"I’d like to point out, this is an incident that took place, a very isolated incident in fact," said Donohue. "A unique set of actions that happened that night that’ll never happen again."
"This was a fully planned operation from beginning to end," Juergen Waldick said, Allen County Prosecutor. "It was set up on Facebook. Just to say they got caught up in something, that simply is completely inaccurate."
Gavin Lauck, has his final final pre-trial scheduled for Tuesday.
