Lutz Sentenced To 17 Years In Shores Home Invasion Shooting

Jake Lutz, 20, the Madison Heights man convicted in the 2017 shooting of a St. Clair Shores man, was sentenced to 17 years in prison. Lutz, who pled no content to the four charges he faced in the incident, was sentenced in Macomb County Circuit Court in late January by Judge Jennifer Faunce.

On June 8 at 3:30 in the morning, Lutz and three co-defendants were at the home of Joseph Blystone, a rented house in St. Clair Shores near 13 Mile and Jefferson Avenue. Lutz was convicted of attempted murder, first-degree home invasion, armed robbery and possession of a firearm during a felony after entering the no-contest plea which courts treat as a guilty plea where sentencing is concerned, but which isn’t viewed as an admission by civil courts.

Ashleigh Haught, 20, of Madison Heights, was charged with accessory after the fact, leaning guilty in January and receiving a special youth sentence under the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act. Two more defendants, Tyler Evan Kopke, 19, of Madison Heights and Angelena Joy Fortin, 17, of Troy, also face charges of attempted murder, first-degree home invasion, armed robbery and possession of a firearm during a felony. Kopke will appear for pretrial hearing Feb. 26; Fortin has her pretrial hearing March 12. Neither has entered a plea.

Judge Fuance sentenced Lutz to 15 years in prison for attempted murder and armed robbery and to two years for possession of a firearm while committing a felony. The defendants believed the victim had a large quantity of medical marijuana, according to the Macomb Daily.

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Lutz Booking Photo via St. Clair Shores Police.