Victim, 93, begged mercy and prayed
Associated Press
Updated: 01/18/2011 10:48:23 PM CST
A teenager was sentenced Tuesday to 25 years in prison for his role in the stabbing death of a 93-year-old Sawyer County woman.
Austin Davis, 16, of Ojibwa pleaded guilty to second-degree intentional homicide in the death of Irena Roszak in the town of Radisson. He was 15 at the time.
Davis will have 15 years of extended supervision after serving his prison sentence.
Davis told authorities his job was to be the lookout and to take anything valuable in the May 2009 home robbery.
Prosecutors allege 28-year-old Christopher Roalson shouted satanic references as he stabbed Roszak and she begged for her life. Roalson's jury trial is set to begin Feb. 7.
Roszak, a ****** of five with 21 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren, was ****** May 3, 2009, after confronting burglars in her Radisson home, according to Sawyer County court records. She was repeatedly stabbed with two knives and hit with a chair as she begged for her life, one of the burglars told investigators.
Davis had met Roalson at a relative's home May 1 and smoked ********* with him the next day, according to court records. Roalson asked Davis if he wanted to go to Radisson to **** someone, the records say. They put on black clothing and carried knives with the intent of ******* a couple with whom Roalson had had an argument, but a motion light scared them away from the couple's residence, records say. Then they went to Roszak's nearby home.
Roalson broke a window to gain entry. The two were looking for items to take when Roszak discovered Roalson and he began attacking her, court records say. He went to the kitchen with a ******, bent *****, got Davis' ***** and a chair, and returned to the woman's bedroom.
Roalson told a Radisson woman that he repeatedly hit Roszak with a chair and stabbed her, according to the court records. He said Roszak was "begging for her life and praying." Roalson then said, "I stabbed her and stabbed her and stabbed her."
Roalson told the woman that he said something similar to "Hail Satan" while he was stabbing the victim, the court records say.
Davis told the investigators that he and Roalson washed off the knives, changed clothes and went to ***** after the slaying, the court records say. They were taken into custody several days later. Only a smoking pipe was taken from Roszak's home.
