Jamere Bew Obituary, Death; – One of three people charged with killing a Bloomington man who was left for dead in rural Bloomington pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder.
Derek Siebring, now 19, was sentenced to 65 years in prison. Investigators said Siebring beat 31-year-old Jamere Bew with a baseball bat and shot him multiple times on Thanksgiving weekend of 2023. Bew was found in a ditch off Route 136, between McLean and Heyworth. Authorities said he had been strangled with a cord, and there was also duct tape around his neck.
Initially, McLean County prosecutors said Siebring was eligible for natural life in prison because the killing, “was accompanied by exceptionally brutal or heinous behavior indicative of wanton cruelty.”
Murder charges are pending against Bew’s girlfriend, 24-year-old Gabrielle Stine, and 28-year Justin Kletz. In an earlier court hearing, prosecutors said Stine reported the two males co-defendants were enraged that Bew had sex with Stein while she was sleeping at their Springfield Road apartment.
Stine, who also faces a charge that she burglarized Bew’s apartment, has a pretrial scheduled for March 31. Meanwhile, Kletz has his pretrial set for April 2. Siebring must serve the entire 65-year sentence handed down by McLean County Judge William Yoder. Siebring was given an additional three years behind bars for aggravated battery, alleging he threw an object at a correctional office while being held in the McLean County Jail.
