The man who killed a Floyd County teenager will learn his sentence Wednesday. Beforehand, James Michael Crowe’s family prepared what they’ll say to the killer when they to address him for the first time.
Alexander Muniz gunned down Crowe in April last year in Versailles. Crowe’s family calls him a monster and says the 20 years Muniz is expected to serve in jail isn’t justice enough for James Michael.
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Hours before it’s her turn to talk, Jackie Ousley wonders what she’ll say to the man convicted of killing her nephew.
“I don’t know how, I don’t, I mean we have to, right,” questioned Ousley who raised 18-year-old Crowe for a decade and considered him a son.
“We need some closure; it’s just hard because I don’t think Michael’s been justified at all,” said Ousley.
Crowe’s murderer signed a plea agreement last month meaning Muniz agreed to a manslaughter charge, avoided trial and faces 15 years in prison. Ousley preferred a life sentence.
“I feel like there is no jury in this world that would let him walk and that’s in my heart and if the people would have stood up for Michael that were there, he would have been gone for awhile,” said Ousley.
It was broad daylight when Crowe was killed in a Versailles apartment lot April 22, 2011. Police never said a motive, but the victim’s family has their suspicions and questions they think won’t ever be answered once the last chapter in their life is closed for good tomorrow.
“It’s the hardest thing I’ve ever in my life had to think about; who would even think about having to do something like this,” asked Ousley.
Muniz was also charged with tampering with physical evidence and could be sentenced to another five years for that.
Muniz goes before a Woodford County judge Wednesday at 9:30 a.m.
