After shooting and killing his Pizza Hut boss, whose body was discovered stuffed in a bag behind the establishment, a Wisconsin man will serve decades in jail.
Alexander Stengel, 55, was killed, and on Friday, Kavonn Ingram was given a 45-year term. In August, Ingram entered a guilty plea to first-degree reckless homicide.
Prior to receiving a sentence, Ingram accepted accountability for his conduct following the murder, but he maintained that it was self-defense because he had been attacked first, according to local news station.
“I take responsibility for my wrong actions taken after the altercation at Pizza Hut,” he stated. “However, the events leading up to the altercation, as well as the physical fight, caused me to act in survival mode.”
Judge Michelle Havas of the Milwaukee County Circuit Court didn’t buy it.
“Frankly, I don’t believe you,” Havas stated. “I don’t believe for one second that this was anything but a cold-blooded execution of someone who worked for 33 years for crappy wages at a Pizza Hut, because it’s what he could do.”
The killing started on February 3rd, when Stengel showed his coworkers, including Ingram, a big roll of cash that was part of an inheritance of $7,000.
After shooting Stengel in the head two days later in the Milwaukee Pizza Hut kitchen on North Chicago Avenue, Ingram wrapped Stengel’s body in two trash bags, carried the body out back, and disposed of it in a dumpster.
In an attempt to clean up the murder scene, he texted Stengel’s regional manager, claiming that Stengel was feeling under the weather and would be leaving early. This resulted in Stengel being clocked out of work. Then, Ingram rode a bus home.
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Two days later, the murder was uncovered when a garbage truck driver reported seeing what appeared to be a body in a rubbish can to the authorities. Officers discovered the corpse inside a plastic bag.
“Officer Hesse could see shoes attached to feet and legs sticking out of the can and underneath the plastic bag,” according to the court documents.
Beneath it was a puddle of blood. From the body, a dried blood trail went to the restaurant’s rear entrance.
Officers discovered a “part of the tiled kitchen floor” in the restaurant that was “uncharacteristically clean.”
Officers discovered a bloody mop, an apparent blood smear on the closet light switch, and what looked to be “coagulated blood/flesh on the bottom of the slop sink” in the closet.
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