Man sentenced to state prison for 2018 shotgun shooting in Chicora
A 58-year-old Chicora man was sentenced Thursday to 126 to 276 months in state prison after he pleaded guilty to shooting another man in the chest with a sawed-off shotgun inside a bar on Sept. 2, 2018.
Gary Ellenberger of Chicora was sentenced immediately after pleading guilty to a felony charge of attempted homicide for shooting Heath Schrecengost of Karns City, who was 27 at the time.
The shooting occurred at Miller's Town Inn.
Before Common Pleas Judge Timothy McCune ordered the sentence, Schrecengost and family members told him that Schrecengost spent a month, including two weeks in a coma, in UPMC Presbyterian Hospital in Pittsburgh following the shooting.
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