7/28/14 - Nearly four years after a former Livingston County man was shot and killed, the three men convicted in the case will learn their fates this afternoon. Three men were charged with the murder of 53-year-old John Mick, who was shot to death at the Flint River Village Apartments in August of 2010. Mick, who lived in Brighton for 14 years, had worked as an engineering technician at the GM Proving Grounds in Milford before retiring to take a security guard job in Flint. Earlier this month, a Genesee County jury returned guilty verdicts on murder charges against two of the three suspects; 22-year-old Floyd Gene Perkins and 21-year-old Kenya Ali Hyatt. However, they could not agree on a verdict in the homicide charge against a third defendant, 33-year-old Aaron Williams, although they did convict him on armed robbery and firearms charges. Perkins and Hyatt were also convicted on those counts. They face life in prison without the possibility of parole when they are sentenced at 2pm by Genesee County Circuit Court Judge Judith Fullerton. Williams will also be sentenced this afternoon, but will face a maximum term of life in prison with a chance of parole on the armed robbery conviction. Court records indicate that prosecutors have reserved the right to retry Williams on the murder count in the future. More than two years passed without a break in the case until Perkins and Hyatt were arrested in connection with another crime in Mt. Morris Township. Flint Police say they were able to obtain information from that case that led to the trio being charged in Mickâs murder. (JK)
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