Christopher Estell Cutshaw 30, of Louisburg, Kansas pleaded guilty on Friday August 14, 2026, to second degree murder in the death of Michael Ryan Strup.
Cutshaw shot Strup New Years Eve 2021 in Amsterdam, Missouri and has been held in the Bates County Jail since the charges were filed.
In a plea agreement agreed to by the Defendant, Cutshaw will serve 17 years on the second-degree murder charge and 5 years for armed criminal action with a deadly weapon. Sentences are to run concurrently and he must serve 85 percent on the second-degree murder plea with credit for time served.
Cutshaw was represented by Public Defender Jeffrey Martin of Harrisonville, MO and has been transported to the Missouri Department of Corrections by the Bates County Sheriff's Office.
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