SPOKANE, Wash. — A teen who beat a World War II veteran to death during a robbery is scheduled for sentencing Thursday in Spokane.
Seventeen-year-old Kenan Adams-Kinard faces a standard sentence to 20 to 27 years in prison.
He pleaded guilty last month to a murder charge in the August 2013 attack on Delbert Belton. The 88-year-old known as “Shorty” survived the battle of Okinawa but was killed outside a bar.
KREM reports the second teen accused in the attack, Demetrius Glenn, is scheduled for a hearing Thursday afternoon on a possible plea deal.
Belton returned to Spokane after World War II and spent decades working at Kaiser Aluminum before retiring.
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