Sentencing delayed for Hawk
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POLSON – An attorney for a man who has agreed to a plea agreement for the shooting death of a 3-year-old Ronan boy says a backlog in the state’s prison resources is delaying sentencing for the case.
Public Defender Matt Pavelich on March 25 said that Galen Hawk, 26, of St. Ignatius, has been unable to obtain a neuropsychological evaluation ordered by Lake County District Judge James Manley through state resources. Pavelich proposed that Hawk be transferred to Flathead Tribal Jail where tribal psychologists will evaluate him as part of a pre-sentence investigation.
Hawk has agreed to plead guilty to the death of Lonato Allen Moran, who was taken to St. Luke Community Hospital in Ronan with a gunshot wound in October 2014. Hawk told investigators that he had been playing a game of “gun tag” with the child and didn’t realize his pistol was loaded.
