Olathe ? Two brothers have been sentenced for their role in the slaying of a DeSoto woman who was targeted after she reported an earlier assault.

Prosecutors said Juan Crutchfield, 23, planned and arranged the killing of Melanie S. Oliver as she slept last September. He was sentenced Friday to life in prison. He must serve 25 years before he can seek parole.

Jesse Guardado, 19, gave his brother money to buy shotgun shells and gave him a ride to and from DeSoto on the night of the shooting. He was sentenced to 7 1/2 years in prison.

Crutchfield first tried to withdraw his guilty plea to first-degree murder, which he entered in May. He said he had been confused and felt pressured into entering the plea in Johnson County District Court.

District Judge James Franklin Davis denied Crutchfield’s request.

Crutchfield had been sentenced in May to 14 years in prison for knocking Oliver unconscious and shattering bones in her face the month before she was killed.

Davis ordered Friday’s sentence to run consecutively to that sentence.

Crutchfield’s brother, Guardado, had two trials on a charge of first-degree murder that ended in mistrials after jurors could not reach unanimous verdicts.

Days before a third trial was to begin, Guardado pleaded no contest, and the judge found him guilty of second-degree murder.