DETROIT (WWJ) – Jamere Miller, the Inkster man who pleaded guilty to killing his ex-girlfriend as she left her shift as a nurse at Detroit Receiving Hospital this past spring, has learned his sentence.
Miller, 36, was sentenced Tuesday to 35-60 years in prison after pleading guilty to the second-degree murder of Patrice Wilson last month.
Shortly before 8 a.m. on May 13, officials say Miller, disguised with a woman's wig, hat and glasses, waited for Wilson, 29, outside the hospital on St. Antoine Street.
When she got into her car after her shift, Miller went to the back passenger side of the SUV and fired multiple shots, fatally wounding her. He then got in the driver's seat and fled the scene.
Wilson's body was found in the back of her SUV in Novi later that day. He turned himself in to Detroit police the next day.
Officials have said Wilson was "simply trying to live her life and break off a relationship" with Miller that she "knew was not good for her."
On Oct. 10 Miller pleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder. Under the plea deal, charges of first-degree and felony murder were dismissed, along with one count of carjacking, one count of armed robbery, one count of felon in possession of a firearm, and five counts of felony firearm.
"Patrice Wilson, by all accounts, was a hard working woman, great mother, great family person and well respected in her job as a nurse at the Detroit Medical Center. She was simply trying to live her life, work hard and break off a relationship that she knew was not good for her," Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said at the time of Miller's arraignment in June.
Reports the week after Wilson's murder said Miller had ties to a 2011 missing person case in which the mother of his son — who was pregnant with their second child — disappeared. That case remains unsolved.
