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Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News

(Ellwood City, PA) A man accused of shooting and killing a woman and injuring her daughter in Lawrence County in 2023 pleaded guilty but mentally ill yesterday. According to court documents, twenty-five-year-old Keegan Tyler Willis-King of New Mexico, pleaded guilty to murder in the third degree and aggravated assault. He was sentenced to 15-30 years of confinement for the murder charge as well as 5-10 years for the aggravated assault charge. Investigators confirm that he shot Cassidy Smith, who was his girlfriend at the time of the incident, and killed her forty-two-year-old mother Krista Knechtel, in an apartment on First Street in Ellwood City on January 30th, 2023. Police stated that he surrendered about ten minutes later.