A Hodgenville man is the final of four men, including three from Elizabethtown, sentenced for a 2014 home invasion and murder in Rowan County.
Anthony T. Paysen, 29, was formally sentenced on Tuesday to 43 years in prison after pleading guilty last month to murder, second-degree robbery and second-degree burglary, according to the Kentucky Attorney’s General’s Office.
The murder took place on June 22, 2014, when Paysen and four other suspects — Julius Kolowitz, 30, Jaque Abrams, 29, and Marcus Stewart, 29, all of Elizabethtown, and Demario Powell, 28, of Morehead – broke into 20-year-old Bo D. Otis’ home in Clearfield (just outside of Morehead) and shot him once in the back of his head.
Paysen, the attorney general’s office said, was identified as the person who shot Otis, who died the next day at University of Kentucky Chandler Medical Center.
The other defendants have already been sentenced in the case.
The murder investigation was led by Kentucky State Police.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
Contact Ken at ken@k105.com
