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Maliqe Crenshaw is pictured with his attorney, Jessica Glendening, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in Douglas County District Court.

A convicted killer who later threatened corrections officers at the Douglas County Jail will serve an additional half year for the offense, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Maliqe Crenshaw, 24, was sentenced by Judge Stacey Donovan to six months in prison for a criminal threat he made in October. That term will run consecutively to the 31 months he is serving for fatally shooting Cameron Renner, 20, of Topeka, on June 3, 2023.

Crenshaw had originally been charged with second-degree murder in Renner’s death, but the state accepted a no contest plea in July to involuntary manslaughter and dismissed two domestic violence cases and agreed to not charge two others against Crenshaw, as the Journal-World reported.

The criminal threat took place on Oct. 9, when Crenshaw got into an altercation with corrections officers, who then warned him that he could face 10 years for battering them. Crenshaw replied that if he was going to get 10 years “I’m going to make sure one of you dies,” and he threatened to grab the officers by the throat if they used a Taser on him, said Assistant District Attorney Samantha Foster while providing a factual basis for the plea to the court on Nov. 20. Foster dropped a charge of battery on a law enforcement officer in exchange for Crenshaw’s guilty plea to criminal threat.

Under state sentencing guidelines, Crenshaw faced 11 to 13 months for the criminal threat, but the state agreed to recommend a lesser sentence that would run consecutively to the manslaughter sentence, and Donovan agreed to that departure.