COVID-19 precautions delay sentencing of final 3 defendants for murder of Palmer teen
Print article PALMER — Courthouse closures linked to COVID-19 precautions have delayed the sentencing hearings of three of four defendants convicted in the murder of 16-year-old David Grunwald four years ago. Four men who were teenagers at the time — Erick Almandinger, Dominic Johnson, Bradley Renfro and Austin Barrett — were charged in Grunwald’s murder, which sent shockwaves through the Mat-Su community. In November 2016, Grunwald was beaten in a trailer behind a Palmer home and then driven, bloodied and half-conscious, in his Ford Bronco to the Knik River, where he was shot and ...