FLINT, MI – Two people charged in connection with a home invasion that left one person dead and others injured will serve prison time for their offenses.

Joshua Childers and Patricia Rickman appeared before Genesee County Circuit Court Judge F. Kay Behm Tuesday, June 28, for sentencing on charges of second-degree home invasion and assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder.

Childers was sentenced to 5-15 years in prison for the home invasion charge and 5-10 years for the assault charge, according to online court records. The sentences will run concurrently.

Rickman was given a sentence of 3-15 years for second-degree home invasion and 3-10 years for the assault charge. Both sentences will run concurrently.

Both defendants were given credit for 499 days of jail time served.

The two defendants, both of Flint, were originally charged with first-degree home invasion, assault with intent to murder, and assault with intent to do great bodily harm in connection with the Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021, home invasion of a residence in the 1400 block of Carman Street in Burton.

A third person, 25-year-old Johnathon Skaggs, died during the home invasion when he was stabbed by a person inside the home in self defense.

Police had originally been called to the area in response to the report of a stabbing. When they arrived, they found the body of 25-year-old Johnathon Skaggs in the snow outside the home. Two people inside the home also had been injured.

Skaggs, Childers, and Rickman broke into the home of Skaggs’ ex-girlfriend on Valentine’s Day with the intent to harm, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton told MLive-The Flint Journal previously.

Skaggs, officials said, was armed with a knife. The other two had metal pipes.

The defendants previously said in court they knocked on the front door of the home but did not receive an answer. Skaggs went around to the back of the home and the two defendants heard a loud crash they would later ascertain was Skaggs kicking in the back door.

Once inside, Skaggs cut his ex-girlfriend with a knife, Leyton said at the time. Her husband was also stabbed but was eventually able to stab Skaggs with a kitchen knife.

Childers admitted to swinging a pipe at one of the victims to get them to stop fighting with Skaggs inside the home. Rickman also said she was inside the home and tried to break up the altercation that ended up being fatal.

As the suspects attempted to flee the scene in a vehicle, Skaggs collapsed outside the home and died.

The two additional victims were treated at Hurley Medical Center in Flint with non-life-threatening injuries, according to police.

The two people inside the home acted in self-defense and were not charged in connection with the incident, prosecutors said.

Read more at The Flint Journal:

3 charged in Burton home invasion that left 1 intruder dead, prosecutor says

3 arraigned in Burton home invasion that left 1 intruder dead, 2 in home injured

Flint couple plead guilty, admit to having roles in deadly Valentine’s Day home invasion in Burton

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