SPARTA, Wis. – A Sparta man convicted of beating his girlfriend to death was sentenced to 33 years in prison. Shawn Hock, 34, claimed he was lying in bed with Sara Latimer at their apartment when she died, but Judge Todd Ziegler found that hard to believe. An autopsy concluded that the blunt force trauma to the head and face caused her death. That was in May 2022. There evidence that the couple was going through a break-up.

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 Kevin Croninger, Monroe County prosecutor: “Shawn Hock beat the life out of the victim, Shawn Hock is a coward, a liar, and a murderer, he must be confined for an extremely long period of time for the public to be protected.”