{"id":8744,"date":"2011-09-28T17:56:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-29T00:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=8744"},"modified":"2011-09-28T20:21:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-29T03:21:44","slug":"one-defendant-in-salkum-triple-homicide-case-gets-14-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=8744","title":{"rendered":"One defendant in Salkum triple homicide case gets 14 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker<br \/>\nLewis County Sirens news reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CHEHALIS &#8211; Judge Richard Brosey sentenced Ryan J. McCarthy today to 14 years in prison for his role in last summer&#8217;s events in Salkum in which three people were fatally shot and one survived a gunshot to her face.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy, 30, pleaded guilty three weeks ago to robbery, burglary and attempted extortion in order to take advantage of a plea agreement.<\/p>\n<p>He maintains he did not commit any of the crimes he was originally charged with, including three murders.<\/p>\n<p>His former cell mate John Booth Jr., formerly of Onalaska, is scheduled to be tried for murder in November in Lewis County Superior Court.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More later:<\/strong> <em>Gunshot victim Denise Salts told McCarthy in court today what she thinks of him<\/em>.<br \/>\n\u2022\u2022\u2022<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, for details about the plea agreement, read &#8220;Breaking news: Plea agreement for &#8220;accomplice&#8221; in Salkum triple slaying means about 14 years&#8221; from\u00a0 Wednesday Sept. 7,\u00a0 2011, <a title=\"&quot;Breaking news: Plea agreement for &quot;accomplice&quot; in Salkum triple slaying means about 14 years&quot; from  Wednesday Sept. 7,  2011\" href=\"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/?p=8405\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sharyn\u00a0 L. Decker Lewis County Sirens news reporter CHEHALIS &#8211; Judge Richard Brosey sentenced Ryan J. McCarthy today to 14 years in prison for his role in last summer&#8217;s events in Salkum in which three people were fatally shot and one survived a gunshot to her face. McCarthy, 30, pleaded guilty three weeks ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10],"class_list":["post-8744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-story","tag-by-sharyn-l-decker","tag-news-reporter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8744"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8747,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8744\/revisions\/8747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lewiscountysirens.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}