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Top court spurns appeal in Ball State student s 1994 killing
May 5, 2021
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MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) The U.S. Supreme Court has rebuffed a central Indiana man s appeal of his life sentence for fatally shooting a Ball State University student in 1994 during an attempted robbery.
The court issued an order Monday declining to hear Larry Wayne Newton Jr. s appeal of a Delaware County judge s 2016 decision denying his bid for post-conviction relief, The Star Press reported.
“The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision finally closes the book on this horrendous saga,” Delaware County Prosecutor Eric Hoffman said Tuesday in a statement.
Newton was 17 in September 1994 when the Muncie resident fatally shot Christopher Coyle a 19-year-old Ball State University student from Pendleton during an attempted off-campus robbery.
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MUNCIE, Ind. The U.S. Supreme Court won’t consider the latest and perhaps final appeal of convicted killer Larry Wayne Newton Jr.
The Muncie man was 17 when he fatally shot Christopher Coyle a 19-year-old Ball State University student from Pendleton during an attempted robbery in an alley east of the campus in September 1994.
A year after the homicide, Newton pleaded guilty to murder, part of a plea agreement that saw prosecutors end their pursuit of a death sentence.
Judge Robert Barnet Jr. later imposed a sentence of life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, as had been specified in the plea deal.
Prosecutor: Police right in shooting
Man opened fire after chase
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MUNCIE – Police were justified in fatally shooting a man during a chase and gun battle in east central Indiana, a prosecutor said Wednesday.
Jonathan Levi Allen, 28, a former Muncie resident who was living in Wichita, Kansas, died March 10, one week after the March 3 shooting, Indiana State Police said. Allen was shot in the head by a Muncie officer and crashed his SUV into a parked vehicle, police said.
The officer who shot Allen and a second officer who also fired upon the suspect “unquestionably and without a doubt did so in self-defense and in the defense of others,” Delaware County Prosecutor Eric Hoffman said in a report, The Star Press reported.
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