Updated May 22, 2019

A Leoma man being held in the Giles County jail for two years has been released after a plea in Circuit Court.

Colton Daniel Perryman,  accused of shooting his pregnant 16-year-old girlfriend Samantha "Stormy" Carter inside a motel room in September 2017 at Pulaski's Richland Inn pleaded no contest to lesser charges and has been released from the Giles County Jail.

   Pulaski Police were alerted to the incident on Labor Day 2017  at the hotel         where  a 16-year-old victim from Leoma had been shot, said Pulaski Police       Lieutenant Joey Turner.

Perryman was first charged and arraigned on two counts of second-degree murder, one count of tampering with evidence, and two counts of aggravated assault and bond was set at $900,000.

   In 2017, Giles County General Sessions Judge Chip Richardson ruled in favor of the state at a hearing finding probable causes for the charges against Perryman.

In the plea agreement, Perryman plead no contest to two counts of the lesser charge of voluntary manslaughter. His sentence was set at six years for each count and five years was suspended.

Perryman also plead no contest to the tampering with evidence charge and received a three-year sentence to run concurrent with the voluntary manslaughter sentences.

Reports show his sentence of 12 years was suspended to 10 years probation since he served  two years in jail.

He  was released  last month on time served with sentence reduction based on good behavior.  Before being released from the county jail, he was also ordered to pay court cost and probation fees starting this fall.