Second guilty plea in babysitter’s death
Parisi-King charged with complicity in fatal shooting.
A woman pleaded guilty Friday to being a co-conspirator in the March 2017 shooting death of a babysitter in a Dayton home.
Kara Parisi-King, 27, is the second person to enter a guilty plea in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court for complicity to commit murder in connection with the shooting death of Taylor Brandenburg, 20.
In November, Evans Cassell, 36, pleaded guilty to the same charge as well as a firearms charge and was sentenced in November to 15 years to life in prison.
Brandenburg has been called “an innocent victim” by police who said she had no involvement in a dispute that led to the shooting but came outside to check on a disturbance when she was fatally shot.
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Parisi-King is scheduled to be sentenced March 27 and faces the same poten- tial sentence.
Police and prosecutors said Parisi-King and two co-defendants, Chuckie M. Lee, 39, and Cassell got into an altercation March 12 with some bar patrons inside the Glass Hat Bar on Linden Avenue in Dayton. The argument moved outside and then a half-mile away to 77 Huffman Ave., where police said the men shot at but missed the bar patrons, fatally striking Brandenburg.
Police said Parisi-King helped provide Lee, her t hen-boyfriend, with a semi-automatic pistol and transport him to the Huff- man Avenue address before the death of Brandenburg, an innocent victim with no connection to the defen- dants.
In February, the trial of Lee, who is facing charges of shooting and killing Bran- denburg, was delayed. The trial was pushed back for Lee’s second attorney to step down as counsel to the defendant.
Montg o mery Co u nty Common Pleas Court Judge Gregory Singer granted the motion filed by the attorney, Brad Baldwin, who said he was having communications issues with Lee.
Lee’s trial is now scheduled to begin June 18.