LAFAYETTE, Ind. Talmadge Jasper’s sentencing hearing Tuesday became a tale of two families grieving the loss of two sons one living in prison for the next 45 years, the other dead by Jasper’s hand.
Tippecanoe Superior 2 Judge Steve Meyer sentenced Jasper to prison for 60 years for killing 29-year-old Ryan Martin on May 23, 2019. Jasper will have to serve 75 percent of the sentence 45 years until he can be released. He’s already served two years in pretrial detention.
Meyer’s sentence concluded emotional statements ranging from forgiveness for Jasper to constrained hatred. You disgust me
Megan Martin, one of Ryan’s sisters-in-law, read a statement from Chris Martin, Ryan’s bother.
60 years given for slaying of boyfriend
Associated Press
LAFAYETTE – A northern Indiana man who pleaded guilty to killing a man who was dating his ex-girlfriend has been sentenced to 60 years in prison in the gruesome 2019 slaying.
The Tippecanoe County judge who sentenced Talmadge Jasper, 20, on Tuesday, ordered the Lafayette man to serve 45 years of that sentence, the Journal & Courier reported.
Jasper pleaded guilty in August to murder in the May 2019 killing of 29-year-old Ryan Martin. Prosecutors said Jasper, then 18, lured Martin to his Lafayette apartment and struck him from behind four times with a sledgehammer as Martin sat on a couch.
A northern Indiana man who pleaded guilty to killing a man who was dating his ex-girlfriend has been sentenced to 60 years in prison in the gruesome 2019 slaying.