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Friday 26 January 2018

Man sentenced for killing would-be helper during snowstorm

from the district attorney. view Thursday that her cli-
He was sentenced to be- ent had been drinking and
tween 14 and 19 years in taking painkillers before the
prison; his lawyer Victoria shooting and still doesn’t
Jayne said he will be cred- remember it. She said it ap-
ited for about two years al- pears that someone else
ready served in jail. had been driving and left
Jefferson Heavner was her client asleep in the car.
shot after he and others When someone reached
came to help when Lee in to take the keys, she be-
was found in the stalled lieves her client was startled
car along a snowy Cataw- and felt like he was in dan-
ba County road in Janu- ger. “That’s what startled
ary 2016, the news release Marvin, and in that uncon-
said. According to investi- scious state of mind, he
gators, the group believed came out of the car and
Lee was intoxicated, tried started firing,” she said.
to take the car keys and Still, she added: “He has
planned to call authorities great remorse, but he
— causing Lee to become doesn’t have any memory
belligerent. Gunfire scat- of doing that.”
tered the would-be help- Several of Heavner’s fam-
ers, and Heavner was shot ily members including his
multiple times, investigators mother, Lena Eidson, ad-
This photo shows Marvin Jacob Lee, who opened fire on a group trying to help him during a 2016 said. The prosecutor’s news dressed Lee during his hear-
snowstorm and will serve a dozen years in prison for killing one of the Good Samaritans. Lee
pleaded guilty Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, to second degree-murder and discharging a weapon release said Lee also fired ing Wednesday in a Ca-
into an occupied vehicle. into vehicles of others who tawba County courtroom.
(Catawba County Sheriff’s Office via AP) had stopped to help. No “My boy is gone, and I
By JONATHAN DREW car during a snowstorm pleaded guilty Wednes- one else was hurt. can’t bring him back.
Associated Press will serve a dozen years in day to second-degree The suspect was passed out There’s nothing done here
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A prison for killing one of the murder and two counts of in the car when the sheriff’s today that can change
North Carolina man who would-be Good Samari- discharging a weapon into tactical team arrived to ar- that,” Eidson said, accord-
opened fire on a group tans. an occupied vehicle, ac- rest him. ing to the prosecutor’s
trying to help his stranded Marvin Jacob Lee, 29, cording to a news release Jayne said in a phone inter- news release.q

Kentucky shooting suspect ordered held in juvenile court

By ROBERT RAY court, where the teenag- everyone knows each oth- classes there might resume. more than a dozen other
BRUCE SCHREINER er’s identity and details of er — Benton, the nearest Two more patients were students suffered bul-
Associated Press the crime remain cloaked town, has about 4,300 resi- released from Vanderbilt let wounds, Darnall said
BENTON, Ky. (AP) — The in secrecy. But he reiter- dents, and the entire coun- University Medical Center Wednesday, stressing that
15-year-old accused in a ated that the state wants ty has just 31,000 people or in Nashville, spokeswoman first-degree assault carries
school shooting that killed to try the teenager as an so. The county’s elemen- Kristin Smart said Thursday. the same penalty.
two students and left 18 adult. Meanwhile, authori- tary and middle schools re- Two male patients are still “Attempted murder is an
others bleeding and broken ties are gathering evidence opened Thursday in an ef- being treated at the hospi- offense which takes into
appeared Thursday before for a grand jury, hoping to fort to “get back to normal- tal — one who is in critical account motive and spe-
a juvenile court judge who discover why he fired into a cy,” after Superintendent but stable condition and cific intent,” Darnall said.
found probable cause to crowd of his classmates, all Trent Lovett invited parents the other who is in stable Assault simply requires a
detain him on preliminary 14 to 18 years old, as they to come along with their condition, Smart said. “serious physical injury by
charges of murder and as- waited for the morning bell younger children, to help Until authorities know why means of a dangerous in-
sault. inside Marshall County High manage their grief. the shooter opened fire, strument. So as of right
Assistant Marshall County School on Tuesday. But the high school — still a they can’t yet add charg- now, we believe that the
Attorney Jason Darnall said The aftermath has been crime scene — remained es of attempted murder better case is an assault first
he can’t comment on what overwhelming in a com- closed and Lovett had no to the two murder charg- charge as opposed to at-
happens inside juvenile munity where practically word Wednesday on when es he faces, even though tempted murder.” q