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Teen in 2006 Indiana highway sniper shootings sentenced
- By Dido L. Arellano
- Published 12/31/2007
- US Domestic News
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Eighteen-year-old Zachariah Blanton was sentenced in Brownstown, Indiana to 42 years in prison on charges of voluntary manslaughter with a deadly weapon and criminal recklessness. He earlier faced changes of murder, attempted murder and criminal recklessness but was lowered in a plea agreement. According to prosecutors, Blanton fired his hunting rifle into Interstate 65 traffic on July 23, 2006, from an overpass about 60 miles south of Indianapolis. Killed in the shooting was 40-year-old Jerry L. Ross from New Albany. An Iowa man traveling in another pickup truck was also injured. Ross’ family members expressed disappointment with the plea agreement.