Bronwyn C Meeks along with two co-defendants Dominic Samuels and Brennan Thomas, both aged 19, were arrested and collectively face a total of 85 criminal charges. The trio faces murder charges of Dylan D. Whetzel after they lured the guy for his one last meal at McDonald's before driving him to a secluded place and shooting him in the head multiple times.
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This Virginia woman allegedly took a man to McDonald's for his one last meal before killing him and dismembering his body.
Bronwyn C Meeks, 22, pleaded guilty on Friday to over 30 criminal charges, including counts of first-degree murder of 20-year-old Dylan D Whetzel.
The Stafford County man’s dismembered body was found from four garbage bags in the woods of Spotsylvania on 1 February 2021.
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Police reports reveal that Whetzel was shot in the head at least five times on 31 January, before the woman chopped his body in multiple pieces and disposed it off in garbage bags.
Meeks, along with two co-defendants Dominic Samuels and Brennan Thomas, both aged 19, were arrested and collectively face a total of 85 criminal charges.
Meeks was also scheduled for an arraignment on Friday, but decided to take the plea agreement, local daily The Free Lance Star reported.
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The special prosecutor David Sands says that Meeks and Mr Samuels are allegedly drug dealers and romantically involved.
Mr. Thomas was a friend who attended the same high school. The dispute with Whetzel began when he asked her to stop selling drugs to one of his friends who had once overdosed.
Making a plan to murder Whetzel, Meeks arranged for him to be picked up in North Stafford under the guise of attending a party.
However, the trio drove Whetzel to a McDonald’s for what she wrote in a text as his “last meal", the prosecutor said.
The trio then drove to western Spotsylvania, where Whetzel was pulled out of the vehicle and shot repeatedly on the head.
Mr Sands added that Mr Samuels and Mr Thomas later purchased a Cobalt axe and dismembered the body.
Authorities were informed of the incident after Mr. Thomas’s grandfather called 911 after seeing his grandson coming out of the woods.
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Mr Sands has duly requested judge Ricardo Rigual to sentence Meeks to prison for 16 to 54 years.
Meanwhile, Mr Samuels is scheduled to face a jury on 15 August, while Mr Thomas' proceedings are likely to begin on 29 November.