Cory Young was charged with hindering a police investigation into the 2023 beating death of Jake Kelly, his housemate. On Monday in Maricopa County Superior Court, neo-Nazi skinhead Cory Young was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison for his part in the August 2023 beating death of Jake Kelly, a 49-year-old gay man with whom Young and his wife had been living in north Phoenix. The sentence was part of a plea deal struck in November, wherein the 45-year-old Young, a violent ex-con whose body is festooned with racist tattoos, pleaded guilty to a Class 3 felony for hindering the police investigation into the incident. Before Judge Daniel Martin pronounced the sentence, Jake’s mother, Jan Kelly, addressed the court, calling Young a “monster” who had been “arrested and imprisoned” for violent crimes in the past, including “vicious” beatdowns Young meted out to others while incarcerated. (…) Judge Martin could have sentenced Young to probation or up to two to 8 3/4 years in prison, but the judge said that the presumptive term of 3 1/2 years was “appropriate,” giving Young credit for 184 days of presentence incarceration. Shannon Young, 37, was sentenced to probation in December after pleading guilty earlier last year to hindering prosecution. She was in court and sat expressionless as her husband was placed in handcuffs and taken away by sheriff’s deputies to begin serving his term. A third man, 35-year-old Angel Mullooly, faces a charge of second-degree murder in Jake Kelly’s killing. A scheduling hearing for Mullooly’s trial has been put off till Feb. 26, according to court documents.
via phoenix new times: Neo-Nazi gets 3.5 years for role in beating death of gay Phoenix man