HILLSDALE, MI (WTVB) – A Hillsdale County Circuit Court jury found 40-year-old Jay Scott Clark of Bryan, Ohio guilty of first degree murder Friday in connection with the death of 37-year-old Jeremy Alan Barron of Camden.
Clark was also convicted on a felony firearm count.
The Hillsdale Daily News reports the jury began deliberations Thursday before breaking for the night The verdict was reached after about another hour of deliberations Friday morning.
Clark is will get a mandatory life prison term when he is sentenced February 5, 2018.
Clark was one of the two suspects in the murder case.
27-year-old Ashley Diane Hoath of Hillsdale entered a guilty plea to a charge of second degree murder and will be sentenced next month. She was supposed to have been a prosecution witness during the trial, but she refused to testify.
Authorities say Barron was shot to death somewhere in Hillsdale County on February 8, 2017.
His body was placed in a field off of Dimmers Road in Camden Township before it was discovered in early April 2017 by some Amish children riding their horses.
