Baxter County, AR. – A man from Salesville, AR. was sentenced to 30 years in prison with a charge of first-degree murder.
21-year-old Baxter Stowers entered a guilty plea in late April and was sentenced on Tuesday for the murder of a man in 2020. According to the original probable cause affidavit, Stowers shot 41-year-old Jeremy Alman 7 times, killing him. The shooting took place in early October 2020, just 2 days before Stowers’s 18th birthday. After the shooting, Stowers called 911 around 2 p.m. on October 5, 2020, and then stated that he had shot another male. When the deputies responded, he was waiting in the driveway with his hands up and the victim’s body was lying on the floor between the front entrance and the residence.
Stowers claimed self-defense, saying that the victim had shown up at Stowers’s residence the night before the shooting undressed and acting erratically. He said that when Alman came it frightened people living in the residence. The next day he went to Alman’s residence to ask him not to return. When Alman answered the door he started yelling and screaming, with Stowers alleging he was even attacked.
Stowers was also charged with aggravated residential burglary and committing a felony with a firearm. Stowers was booked into the Baxter County jail after he pled guilty in April and remained there until the sentencing hearing. He will be transferred to the state prison system.
