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Woodward Community Media says Judge Jack Davis sentenced Justin Pickrell to 45 years on Friday.
Greg Halbleib, Woodward Community Media Springfield, Nov. 9, 2026, at 5:10 a.m., says the term is 45 years for first-degree murder, to be served in full, then three years of supervised release. WAND and Capitol City Now, on the September plea, put Camren White in Taylorville. Woodward puts him in Stonington.
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24, on the September plea stories, and 25, on Monday's sentence story, are not the same age. Taylorville, and Stonington, are not the same town. Seventh and North Grand, on WAND, and Seventh and South Grand, on Capitol City Now, are not the same intersection. Friday's 45 years is what Woodward says the judge imposed.
Woodward Community Media Springfield, by Greg Halbleib, is time-stamped Nov. 9, 2026, at 5:10 a.m., with no zone on that clock. It reported Judge Jack Davis sentenced 25-year-old Justin Pickrell on Friday for the fatal shooting of 19-year-old Camren White of Stonington in April 2025 during a party in a Lenox Avenue apartment. It reported Pickrell pleaded guilty in September. It reported he must serve the full sentence followed by three years of supervised release. Friday, on that page, is not printed as Nov. 6. The page does not print a street number, a hospital, a weapon count, or the intersection where he was arrested. WICS, by Geno Reynolds, dated Sep. 10, 2026, and updated Sep. 11, 2026, reported that on September 9, 2026, Justin L. Pickrell pled guilty to one charge of 1st Degree Murder, and that he is scheduled for a sentencing hearing on November 6, 2026, in front of the Honorable Judge Jack Davis. It reported Judge Davis ordered him to remain in custody until the sentencing date. Scheduled for November 6 in front of Judge Jack Davis, on the September WICS story, and sentenced on Friday by Judge Jack Davis, on Woodward, are not the same tense. Woodward does not print 1:30 p.m. Capitol City Now, dated September 10, 2026, at 2:17 p.m., with no zone, reported court records put the sentencing hearing on November 6 at 1:30 p.m. It did not name the judge. 1:30 p.m., on Capitol City Now, is not a clock on Woodward or on WICS.
The age is not one age. WAND, by Evan Craig, published Sep. 10, 2026, at 5:26 p.m. CDT, reported Sangamon County officials said 24-year-old Justin Pickrell pleaded guilty on Wednesday to one count of first-degree murder. Capitol City Now reported Justin L. Pickrell, 24, pleaded guilty Wednesday to a single count of First Degree Murder, citing Sangamon County court records and a statement from the Sangamon County Sheriff's Department. WICS reported Justin L. Pickrell, now 24 years old, of Springfield, was arrested on April 14, 2025, on charges of 1st Degree Murder. Now 24, on the Sept. 10 WICS story, and 25, on Woodward's Nov. 9 story, are not the same age. Wednesday, on WAND and Capitol City Now, and September 9, 2026, on WICS, are the plea. Woodward says he pleaded guilty in September and does not print the day. The town is not one town. Woodward says Camren White of Stonington. WAND says Camren White, 19, of Taylorville, and its headline says a Christian County teenager. Capitol City Now says Camren White, 19, Taylorville. Stonington, on Woodward, and Taylorville, on WAND and Capitol City Now, are not the same town. A teenager, in the WAND headline, and 19, in the WAND body, are not the same word. WICS does not print Stonington or Taylorville. The block is not one block. WAND and Capitol City Now put the shooting in the 800 block of West Lenox on April 7, 2025. Woodward says a Lenox Avenue apartment in April 2025 and does not print the 800 block or April 7. WAND says he was shot multiple times and rushed to the hospital, where he later died. Woodward says fatal shooting and does not print a hospital.
The arrest intersection is not one intersection. WAND reported he was arrested a week later after a crash near 7th and North Grand Avenue in Springfield. Capitol City Now reported he was arrested by U.S. Marshals after a car crash near Seventh and South Grand about a week later. North Grand, on WAND, and South Grand, on Capitol City Now, are not the same street. A week later, on WAND, and about a week later, on Capitol City Now, are not the same phrase. WICS prints the arrest date as April 14, 2025, and does not print the intersection. April 7 plus seven days is April 14. About a week later is not a date. Capitol City Now reported two other murder counts, two counts of possession of a weapon by a felon, and a count of possession of a stolen firearm were dismissed. WAND's plea story does not print those dismissed counts. Woodward's sentence story does not print a weapon count. WICS does not print the dismissals. Capitol City Now quoted a sheriff's department release thanking the Springfield Police Department, the Leland Grove Police Department, the U.S. Marshals Service, the Sangamon County Coroner's Office, and the Sangamon County State's Attorney's Office. WAND cites the Sangamon County Sheriff's Office for the call and the arrest. Sheriff's Department, on Capitol City Now, and Sheriff's Office, on WAND, are not the same name. The September plea is what WAND, Capitol City Now, and WICS reported. Friday's 45 years, to be served in full, followed by three years of supervised release, is what Woodward says Judge Jack Davis imposed. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
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