But when she didn't respond, he deduced she was dead. "I felt her hit my truck, so I slowed down," he told the psychologist, adding he then walked over to ask if she was okay. He said he believed she may have crossed over to the other side of the road, and that he struck her with his truck. He swung the truck around, but when he did he could no longer see her, "I guess because the gravel road was still dusty."
He claimed that while driving to check the wells in his rice field, he passed Sutherland walking along a gravel road. In the psychological interview, obtained by KARK, the farmer described what happened the day jogger Sydney Sutherland was killed. The 28-year-old underwent a mental forensic exam last month at Arkansas State Hospital, where a psychologist concluded he "did not manifest symptoms of a mental disease or mental defect."
#QUAKE LEWELLYN TRIAL#
Quake Lewellyn has been deemed fit to stand trial for murder. "Today you had pleaded guilty to murder and raping her and will spend the rest of his life in prison, but true justice for Sydney, my daughter, would be for her to be here." What you took 408 days ago from us we'll never get back.”Īfter the hearing, Maggie made a further statement to the press. "Justice for Sydney is all I ever wanted this past year for my daughter. "Why couldn't you just pass her, why couldn’t you just pass my daughter," she asked, per KATV. The hands you hugged me with are the same hands you killed her with." "She was not yours to take," she told him "Satan is real. It just was the right thing to do for Quake and for everybody involved."ĭespite allowing him escape possible execution, Sydney's family spoke of their distain for her killer.Īddressing the court, her mother Maggie Sutherland asked Lewellyn to look her in the eyes as she spoke - and he did. Sutherland had offered this mercy and we took it. "Obviously my client wanted to accept responsibility for what he had done," co-defender Bill James added. "Considering the jeopardy he was going to be in (if there were) a trial, this was a result that we could live with and that the state could also live with," his lawyer Jeff Rosenzweig told the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. Lewellyn's defense attorneys had approached prosecutors and victim Sydney Sutherland's family about the plea deal, and they agreed. On Friday, the 29-year-old was sentenced to life in prison without parole.Īs part of the plea deal, he waived his right to a jury trial prosecutors had warned they would seek the death penalty had he been convicted. Quake Lewellyn pled guilty to capital murder and rape.
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