A twenty-three-year-old Rome man will be sentenced next month after he pleaded guilty this past week to killing a mutilating his friend from Cumming, Georgia. 

Brandon Christopher Risner pleaded guilty to killing his friend Aaron William Davis, who was twenty-one-years old back in November of 2022.  The two men had grown up together and had attended  the Mormon Church together.  Davis was a recent graduate of Brigham Young University-Idaho and had stopped in Rome to see his friend.  Risner stabbed, disfigured and disembowled Davis, according to reports at the time.

Risner pleaded guilty to murder, aggravated assault, aggravated battery, concealing the death of another, abandonment of a dead body and theft by taking, as well as misdemeanor removal of body parts from the scene of a death, tampering with evidence and obstruction of an officer.

He could face as much as a life without parole sentence alongside additional prison time in the case.