Court tileMan sentenced in death of friend
ROME, Ga. – A Northwest Georgia man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison in his best friend’s shooting death.
Shane Bryan Crider was sentenced Tuesday in Floyd County Superior Court. The Rome News-Tribune reported Crider apologized for shooting 23-year-old Jason Darren Puryear and asked the judge for leniency.
Prosecutors have said Puryear, Crider and another man were working on a car in a garage in December 2011. Crider heard noises from outside the garage after Puryear and the other man left. Prosecutors said Crider grabbed a gun and fired four shots into the dark. One struck Puryear in his back and exited through his chest.
Crider was ordered to serve five years of probation after his prison sentence.
Catoosa library sets book sale
RINGGOLD, Ga. – The Friends of the Catoosa County Library will hold a book sale at the Benton Place facility on June 29-30 to raise money for projects to support the library, a news release states.