ROOKS COUNTY — A northwest Kansas man has been sentenced to more than 24 years in prison for second-degree intentional murder in the 2020 death of a woman in northwest Kansas, according to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt.
Thomas S. Wojtczuk, 42, Woodston, was sentenced late Tuesday in Rooks County District Court by Judge Thomas J. Drees. Wojtczuk was sentenced to 285 months in a Kansas Department of Corrections facility for one count of second-degree intentional murder and eight months for one count of a felon in possession of a firearm. The sentences are to be served consecutively. Wojtczuk was also ordered to register as a violent offender for 15 years and serve 36 months of post-release supervision.
A Rooks County jury convicted Wojtczuk in June after a seven-day trial for the April 8, 2020, death of Charity Northrop in Woodston.
Wojtczuk has been registered as a violent sex offender since 2020 for an aggravated criminal sexual abuse conviction in 2014 in Illinois, according to the KBI offender registry.