Gaston Man Says He Didn’t Do It
09.10.12Filed Under: ECI News
More than a year after he pleaded guilty, a Gaston man maintains, he didn’t do it.
23-year-old Zachariah Blanton is serving a 42-year prison term imposed in December 2007. That was 17 months after he was found guilty of using his hunting rifle, to shoot two occupants of pickup trucks traveling on Interstate 65 from an overpass near Seymour. He claims he was joined on the overpass by a second gunman, who did the shooting. A trial stemming from a lawsuit filed by the estate and survivors of the shooting had been scheduled for Oct. 29 in Delaware Circuit Court 1. That lawsuit is now in limbo as the attorney for the estate has dropped from the case.
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