A Wildwood woman has been sentenced to prison after promising sexual favors to lure a man to an ambush.
Gracie Madison Lemke, 23, has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison after pleading no contest to charges including attempted second degree murder with a firearm and aggravated battery with a firearm earlier this month in Sumter County Court.
Lemke was originally arrested in 2023 after the shooting victim had been lured to 4141 County Road 510 in Adamsville by Lemke, who contacted him through Facebook Messenger, according to the original arrest report from the Sumter County Sheriff’s Office. She had promised him “sexual favors.” The alleged triggerman was 27-year-old Joshua Timmons, who was living with Lemke at the time the man was shot at a location just outside the Village of Marsh Bend.
After Lemke lured the man to the designated location on that fateful day, Timmons, who stands 6 feet 1 inch tall, restrained him while Lemke and another woman began searching his car. He broke free from Timmons’ grasp and as he was running, the convicted felon shot him in the back. The bullet exited through the man’s abdomen. He survived the shooting, but required emergency surgery.
Lemke, the other woman and Timmons climbed into Lemke’s 2008 Chevrolet Trailblazer and fled the scene. They had taken the man’s cell phone, but tossed it out of the window of the Trailblazer as they were driving away. They stopped for gasoline before heading to 305 Terry St. in Wildwood, where Lemke and Timmons had been living. When law enforcement arrived at the home, they spotted Timmons as he was attempting to burn clothing he had been wearing during the alleged ambush.
Timmons is still awaiting trial in the case.