Updated August 20, 2018

An 18-year-old Lawrenceburg man has pleaded guilty in the December shooting of a high school student.

Sources said Kyle Daniel Welcher entered an open guilty plea to reckless homicide, and three counts of reckless endangerment with a deadly weapon.

Lawrenceburg police investigator Lt. Brent Hunter said sentencing will be September 21st.

Hunter said Welcher was arrested in December and charged with the murder of Holley Ann Cullum, a student at Lawrence County High School.

Detectives said the shooting occurred at a residence on Smith Avenue in Lawrenceburg.

Welcher faces a penalty of two to four years in prison on the charge of reckless homicide, and a maximum fine of $5,000.