Henry West
WAUSAU, WI (WSAU) — A rescheduled trial for Henry West, the man accused of killing one person and injuring two others in October of 2019, has been set for late March 2022.
On Monday a Marathon County judge set the three-week trial to begin March 21st and run through April 8th.
Charges against West include one count of first-degree intentional homicide and ten counts of attempted first-degree intentional homicide. He also faces felony counts of arson and attempted arson.
Those charges stem from the shooting death of Patty Grimm, the manager of Pine Grove Cemetery in Wausau where West had been employed.
The homicide charge alone carries a mandatory life sentence with only the possibility of parole to be discussed at sentencing.
Attempted homicide and arson charges stem from the injuring of two other workers at the cemetery. West is also accused of rigging his Schofield apartment to blow up by altering a natural gas line and planting booby traps around the unit.
Police say had those contraptions went off, the explosion could have killed or injured hundreds more in the neighborhood.
A scheduling conference was also set for June 14th of this year.
West had been scheduled to go to trial in May, but that was delayed while a new defense team was assembled for West.
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