PLAINFIELD TOWNSHIP, Mich. (WOOD) – A man recently apprehended after a high-speed chase that concluded at a retirement home in Plainfield Township has a notorious past, having previously been sentenced to life imprisonment for murder nearly three decades ago, before a resentencing two years prior.
Authorities involved in the ongoing investigation have identified the suspect as 46-year-old Cody Skaggs.
Skaggs first made headlines in June 1996 as the architect of a deadly robbery at a Wyoming restaurant. At the time, he was just 16, mere days from turning 17, when he collaborated with two accomplices to rob Lennie’s Place. The botched heist resulted in the tragic shooting death of night manager Richard Morris. Skaggs, who had recently lost his job at the restaurant, was accused of planning the robbery and supplying the firearm, though he was not the one who fired the fatal shot.
