RUSK, Texas (KLTV) - A Cherokee County judge sentenced a man to life in prison without parole after he pleaded guilty to the murder of four people.

Jesse Pawlowski was one of three people charged in connection with the 2021 murders of John Thomas Clinton 18, Jeffrey Gerla, 47, Amanda Bain, 29, and Ami Hickey, 39.

Pawlowski appeared in Judge Chris Day's courtroom Monday afternoon.