Co-defendant sentenced in double Utica death case

A young man has been ordered to serve 15 years in prison for his part in the double homicide last year in the Utica community. Jeremy Alexander Trotter entered his pleas of guilt yesterday in the Oconee General Sessions Court to charges of voluntary manslaughter, armed robbery, and malicious injury. A co-defendant, Steven Lee Reynolds, pleaded guilty last month to the murders of Timothy Wayne Caldwell and David Thomas Tranah and was sent to prison for 35 years. The bodies were found in the yard of a home that law enforcement referred to as a “compound”—known for violence, drug activity, and homelessness. Sheriff Crenshaw recently said the compound had been shut down. In the case of Jeremy Alexander Trotter, this was his first blemish to his record and, according to Deputy Solicitor Lindsey Simmons, he cooperated throughout the investigation. Simmons says law enforcement was on board with Trotter’s sentence.