Overview
- Bailey pleaded guilty and mentally ill in November to two counts of aggravated murder and one count of aggravated assault under a plea deal.
- Judge Keith Barnes ordered two 25-to-life terms to run consecutively plus a consecutive zero-to-five-year term for the assault.
- Family members detailed years of severe mental illness, urging accountability alongside treatment rather than pure retribution.
- The defense sought concurrent terms, cited multiple diagnoses and a brief pre-crime hospitalization, and read Bailey’s statement expressing remorse.
- A day before sentencing, her attorney asked to let her be sentenced in absentia due to mental health concerns, and she still faces separate 2024 assault-by-prisoner charges.