An Obetz man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 15 years for a fatal shooting one year ago at a Grove City motel.
Robert A. Perez III, who turns 22 on Wednesday, pleaded guilty to murder in the death of 41-year-old Derrick Schneider, whose body was found in the doorway of a room at the Motel 6 in the 1900 block of Stringtown Road.
Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Jaiza Page gave him the mandatory sentence for murder under Ohio law, and prosecutors dropped a gun specification that would have added three years to the sentence as part of a plea agreement.