The Henry County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office announces that on April 17th, Airic Norman Brauer, 21, Clinton, was sentenced to serve a total of 16 years in the Missouri Department of Corrections for his convictions in a 2022 shooting in Clinton, Missouri.
In July of 2022, an incident occurred at Artesian Park in Clinton. Two young men, Mason Roskop and Mitchell Andrew Raines, were shot by the defendant and died of multiple gunshot wounds. The defendant was charged for the death of Mitchell Andrew Raines and pled not guilty. A jury trial was conducted on the week of January 8, 2024 and the jury heard evidence from the parties for four days. After deliberation, the jury returned a verdict of guilty for voluntary manslaughter, a class B felony with a maximum of fifteen years, and armed criminal action, an unclassified felony with a maximum of fifteen years.
On April 17th, 2024, a sentencing hearing was held. After hearing argument from both sides and statements from the Raines and Roskop families as well as the defendant himself, the court sentenced Brauer to ten years for voluntary manslaughter, and six years for armed criminal action. The sentences shall run consecutively to one another, for a total of sixteen years. Brauer must serve three years by law for the count of armed criminal action before being eligible for parole for the six-year sentence.
