Teen Gets Eight Years for Hagerstown Shooting
posted 7:04 am Wed October 31, 2007 - HAGERSTOWN, Md.
A Hagerstown teenager is headed to prison for eight years for a shooting that wounded a 19-year-old man.
Seventeen-year-old Ryan Kaplan was sentenced Tuesday after pleading guilty to assault and a handgun charge. Under a plea agreement, prosecutors dropped attempted murder and other charges. Kaplan was charged as an adult in the July 2nd shooting of Justin Leibrand of State Line, Pennsylvania. Leibrand was shot while arguing with Kaplan in the 300 block of Brookline Avenue.
The prison time is part of a 20-year suspended sentence.
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Information from: The (Hagerstown, Md.) Herald-Mail,
http://www.herald-mail.com
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