Deal would sentence teen to 45 years for murder

• Michael Pruitt reaches plea deal in May 2014 murder of Caleb Woosley.
• Pruitt would be sentenced to 55 years in prison, with 10 suspended to probation.
• Kore Buchanan and Deandre Plant also face murder charges in Woosley case.
• David Maish serving 2-year sentence for assisting a criminal after he reached deal.

One of three men charged with the May 2014 murder of a Richmond teenager has reached a plea agreement that would sentence him to 45 years in prison.

Michael Pruitt, 18, has agreed in a plea agreement filed Wednesday to plead guilty to the felony murder of Caleb Woosley, 17. If Wayne County Superior Court I Judge Charles K. Todd Jr. accepts the agreement, he would sentence Pruitt to 55 years, with 10 years suspended to probation. Woosley’s mother, Kimberly Woosley, signed the plea agreement.

A date for the plea and sentencing hearing has not been set.

Pruitt, Kore Buchanan and Deandre Plant remain in the Wayne County Jail after their arrests for the murder of Woosley, whose body was found May 18, 2014, in the 200 block alley between North 14th and North 15th streets.

David A. Maish, 19, is serving a two-year sentence in the Plainfield Correctional Facility for a Class C felony charge of assisting a criminal. He was sentenced March 12 by Todd and has a projected release date of Aug. 22. After that, he will serve supervised probation until cases for Pruitt, Buchanan and Plant are completed, then will be unsupervised for the remainder of his six probation years.

Plant and Buchanan are awaiting trial on felony murder charges. Both trials are scheduled for 9 a.m. Sept. 28 in Superior Court I.

Maish admitted he supplied Plant, Buchanan and Pruitt with latex gloves before Woosley was killed and said he helped them clean up and change clothes. He also admitted he helped post pictures on Facebook to establish the trio’s alibi for the time of Woosley’s killing.

Maish said he declined to go with Plant, Buchanan and Pruitt when Woosley was attacked in the alley May 17.

According to an affidavit of probable cause, Maish said Buchanan and Plant knocked on the bedroom window while he was at Pruitt’s home. He said they were upset because Woosley had allegedly touched a juvenile female in a sexual manner, the affidavit said.

Buchanan and Plant discussed with Pruitt a plan to kill Woosley, according to the affidavit, and Maish said that after he returned to his home, the other three arrived with “approximately five baseball bats.”

Pruitt was arrested on July 8, 2014, after an interview with police, who were provided a cellphone video that allegedly contains Pruitt discussing his role in Woosley’s death. Buchanan and Plant were lodged in the Wayne County Jail on Aug. 28.