JACKSON, MI (WKZO AM/FM) — Jackson County jury has convicted a Coldwater man in the second of three sexual assault cases against him. The jury found 29-year-old Brad Risner guilty of first-degree criminal sexual conduct which carries a maximum possible penalty of life in prison.
The charges stem from a February 2010 assault and were brought as part of the state’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative. Risner was first charged in Kalamazoo County and was sentenced earlier this month to at least 10 years in prison in that case.
During the course of the Kalamazoo County investigation, ten other women were identified as being sexually and/or physically assaulted by Risner between 2005 and 2018. Those investigations led to the case in Jackson County and a third case in Calhoun County.
