Posted on 06/06/2007 11:12:34 AM PDT by pabianice
WORCESTER, MA — A Shrewsbury man paroled last year from a 1996 manslaughter conviction has been indicted on charges related to an April 21 shooting that left a 13-year-old boy paralyzed.
A Worcester County grand jury handed up indictments yesterday charging Shawn F. Sims, 36, with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon causing serious bodily injury, unlawfully carrying a loaded firearm, possession of a firearm without a firearm identification card as a career criminal and possession of ammunition without a firearm identification card as a career criminal.
LaNyia Johnson, 13, was sitting on a couch in his aunt’s house at 5 Douglas St., Worcester, on the night of April 21, when a bullet entered the home and struck him in the back. Police said Mr. Sims had been outside the home talking with two men when he pulled out a firearm that discharged.
The bullet missed the two men, but went through the front door jamb at 5 Douglas St. and struck the boy, investigators said. One of the two men who had been talking with Mr. Sims told police he believed the bullet was meant for him, according to police reports.
Mr. Sims, with a last known address in Shrewsbury, was indicted as a habitual offender and is subject to enhanced penalties under the habitual offender and career criminal aspects of the indictments if he is convicted. Timothy J. Connolly, spokesman for District Attorney Joseph D. Early Jr., said Mr. Sims was facing a mandatory minimum sentence of more than 15 years in state prison if convicted on all of the indictments as charged.
Mr. Sims was ordered held on $100,000 cash bail at his April 23 arraignment in Central District Court on charges of assault with intent to murder and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
The indictments will move the case to Worcester Superior Court. It was in that court that Mr. Sims, formerly of Worcester, was convicted of manslaughter in 1996 and sentenced to 18 to 20 years in state prison. He had been charged with murder in the April 25, 1994, beating death of 28-year-old Roland J. Allard, but pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of manslaughter.
The sentence in the manslaughter case was to begin after the completion of a 9-to-12-year sentence imposed in 1994, when Mr. Sims was found guilty of being an accessory, after the fact, to murder and firearm charges in the Oct. 17, 1993, shooting death of 23-year-old Keith B. McCabe of Worcester. Both crimes predated the state’s truth-in-sentencing law, which took effect on July 1, 1994, and changed parole eligibility standards.
Mr. Sims was released on parole in March 2006, and his parole could be revoked as a result of the new charges against him.
I hate it when that happens. He should sue the manufacturer. [/s]
(those who followed last years Governor's campaign know what I'm talking about)
He’s realy a nice boy.
Really
Yeah, another one of those guns with a mind of its own. /sarc Who writes this crap???
Did Michael Dukakis parole this creep?
But occifer, we’us just talkin’.
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