CROWN POINT â The family of a mentally disabled man killed in 2019, his killer and a judge agreed Thursday: The killer deserved a longer sentence than the 45 years to which he agreed to serve.
Daniel R. Allison, 34, was sentenced to 45 years in prison for fatally stabbing 45-year-old Lee R. Nedreau Jr. 25 to 35 times as Nedreau lay in bed June 30, 2019, at Nedreau s mobile home in the 1300 block of Elm Street in Calumet Township.
Lynette Collins, Nedreau s older sister and legal guardian, said her brother, who also was known as Junior, was a gentle giant and a giving soul.
Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis Police Officer who killed George Floyd last May, was found guilty of all charges on Tuesday.
CROWN POINT â The family of a mentally disabled man killed in 2019, his killer and a judge agreed Thursday: The killer deserved a longer sentence than the 45 years to which he agreed to serve.
Daniel R. Allison, 34, was sentenced to 45 years in prison for fatally stabbing 45-year-old Lee R. Nedreau Jr. 25 to 35 times as Nedreau lay in bed June 30, 2019, at Nedreau s mobile home in the 1300 block of Elm Street in Calumet Township.
Lynette Collins, Nedreau s older sister and legal guardian, said her brother, who also was known as Junior, was a gentle giant and a giving soul.
Derek Chauvin, the Minneapolis Police Officer who killed George Floyd last May, was found guilty of all charges on Tuesday.
CROWN POINT â A 23-year-old man was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for two home invasions, including one where a retired Gary police captain was shot.
Kevon Dixon, of Gary, pleaded guilty in July to aggravated battery, a level 3 felony, in connection with Capt. Charles Austin s shooting and burglary as a level 5 felony in a separate case.
Lake Criminal Court Judge Jamise Perkins sentenced Dixon to nine years for shooting Austin and three years for the burglary.
Perkins rejected defense attorney Cipriano Rodriguez s request to order the sentences be served concurrently, instead ordering they be served consecutively.
Austin, 69, said he wanted to share the story of his life and how he nearly died.
GARY â The 22-year-old Hammond man who escaped from custody of a private transport vehicle Monday is accused of working with a 14-year-old boy to murder a Chicago man Nov. 19 in East Chicago, court records show.
Leon Taylor s murder case remains sealed because he is not yet in custody at the Lake County Jail, but details became public when a co-defendant was charged with a felony count of assisting a criminal.
According to court records, Taylor and the 14-year-old robbed and fatally shot Daniel Nitzsche, 52, on Nov. 19 outside a building Nitzsche co-owned in the 700 block of West 150th Street.
Taylor s co-defendant, a 31-year-old Gary woman, was captured by authorities Nov. 24 after they stopped her silver Dodge Charger in the area of Fifth Avenue and Buchanan Street in Gary, according to court records.