A Cape Girardeau man involved in the March 2016 fatal shooting of Carbondale musician Tim Beaty will serve a total of 85 years in state prison after pleading guilty of first degree murder and related charges Wednesday in Jackson County Court.

Jackson County State’s Attorney Michael Carr says evidence established that during the early morning hours of March 27, 2016, 23-year-old Travis Tyler fired a handgun into the direction of two residences on West Walnut Street in Carbondale, and in so doing causing Beaty’s death. Tyler also fired his handgun at Nehemiah Greenlee striking him in the side and causing great bodily harm.

Tyler was sentenced to serve a total of 60 years for the charge of first-degree murder, followed by three years of mandatory supervised release. Carr says Tyler must serve 100 percent of this sentence.

Tyler was also charged in this case with aggravated battery with a firearm. He will serve 15 years in prison with three years of mandatory supervised release. The sentence on each count of aggravated discharge of a firearm is five years followed by two years of mandatory supervised release.

The sentences on each charge will run consecutive and carry a mandatory 85 percent of time to be served.

Twenty-one-year-old co-defendant John F. Ingram of St. Louis entered a plea of guilty to the charge of aggravated discharge of a firearm and was sentence to serve 6 ½ years in state prison on May 17, 2018.