A La Porte County court sentenced Armann Johnson to 110 years in the killings of Kiara Hootman and Travis Pennington.

Thursday's 110-year term is the sentence WSBT and Hometown News Now reported. The August jury verdicts are the earlier finding. The Herald-Dispatch dated that conviction Aug. 21 and did not report the 110-year term. The sentencing stories do not say whether the 110 years are consecutive, and they do not name the judge. Hometown News Now said each murder count carried up to 65 years. WSBT did not print that maximum.

WSBT correspondent Stan Maddux reported Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, that Armann Johnson, 28, was given a 110-year sentence Thursday in La Porte Superior Court 1 on two counts of murder. Hometown News Now, also by Stan Maddux and posted at 10:35 a.m. that day, reported the sentence was imposed Thursday, Oct. 22. WSBT reported he was convicted by a jury in August of fatally shooting Kiara Hootman, 22, and Travis Pennington, 35, at Normandy Village Apartments in Michigan City in August 2024. The La Porte County Herald-Dispatch reported Aug. 28, 2026, citing La Porte County Prosecutor Sean Fagan, that Johnson, 28, was convicted Aug. 21 of two counts of murder in those shooting deaths. That Herald-Dispatch story was updated Oct. 5 and does not report the 110-year sentence. WSBT and Hometown News Now did not name the judge who imposed Thursday's term.

WSBT and Hometown News Now reported police said Pennington was about to drive Hootman to work at Hearthside Food Solutions, on the city's west side, when they were shot. Both reported the two were inside a car in the apartment-complex parking lot. Both reported the La Porte County Coroner's Office said Pennington was shot three times in the head and neck and Hootman suffered four gunshot wounds to the left arm and back. Both reported court documents say Johnson and Hootman were in a brief relationship until she left because of physical abuse. Both reported police said she had recently been staying with Pennington at Normandy Village after moving from her apartment out of fear Johnson would return. Both reported court documents showed the shooting came about a week after Johnson warned Pennington to stay away from Hootman or "be dealt with." Both reported authorities described the killings as driven by revenge. Those are the police and court-document accounts published with the sentence. The August guilty verdicts are the jury's finding on the two murder counts. Thursday's 110-year term is the sentence.

WSBT and Hometown News Now reported a license-plate reader tracked the vehicle the gunman fled in to Johnson's residence in the 800 block of Pine Street. Both reported a search the next day of that vehicle and the home turned up shards of glass similar to pieces from a passenger-side mirror collected where the victims were parked, and a black cloth gun holster fitted for a semi-automatic handgun. Both reported police said dirt on Johnson's vehicle explained tire tracks left when the gunman drove through the grass. Both reported authorities said Johnson and Pennington had worked at the same bakery with Hootman until the two men were terminated a few weeks before the shootings for missing too many days of work. Hometown News Now reported he could have received up to 65 years on each murder count. WSBT's story did not print that maximum. Neither story said whether the 110 years run one after the other. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.