Man in Carmel teen's death offered deal

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WISH) - Prosecutors in the case of a man accused of killing a Carmel teenager attending college in Kentucky have offered the accused killer a plea deal.

WLKY-TV reports Gregory O’Bryan has been offered a plea agreement the family of victim Andrew Compton has signed off on.

“It's 20 years for the offense of murder, 20 years for sodomy,” Tom Van De Rostyne said. “Five years on each of the tampering with physical evidence and two counts of sexual abuse of a corpse.”

In all, lawyers are offering O’Bryan a 40-year sentence in the plea deal, and under the agreement O’Bryan would be eligible for parole in 17 years.

Prosecuting attorneys said they had not heard from the defense, as of around noon on Wednesday. If O’Bryan doesn’t take the agreement and the prosecution doesn’t received a counter offer, attorneys said they’re ready to go to trial.

O’Bryan is due back in court in December. If a deal isn’t reached, he’ll go to trial in July.

Compton disappeared back in the fall of 2010. O’Bryan later admitted to police that he met Compton online and the teen died while the two had sex.