Panguitch • Clay Brewer was once a happy kid who loved baseball and making people laugh — until a pain pill addiction sent him spiraling.
He was a teen who once tried to kill himself, but then brutally killed another man at a Utah youth ranch in 2016.
And for the death of 61-year-old Jimmy Woolsey, Brewer was sentenced Thursday to spend at least five years and possibly the rest of his life in prison.
It was an emotional hearing in the Panguitch courtroom, as the community who knew and loved Woolsey wept at the loss of the man who was raised in rural Garfield County, a beloved father and a husband who worked at the ranch so he could help others.