Elderly Alliance-Area Man to Serve Relatively Long Prison Term
March 15, 2023 5:25AM EDT
Charles Reed (Courtesy Stark County jail)
CANTON, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – A 79-year-old Washington Township man who shot his neighbor in an apparent four-years-long dispute is going to prison for nine to 12 years.
Charles Reed has been sentenced on a felonious assault conviction.
He was found guilty of other charges as well in a jury trial.
Reed shot 58-year-old Larry Nichols at a West State Street gas station in May of last year.
Nichols spent seven months in the hospital and has suffered additional complications.
The bullet is still reportedly in his back.
A dispute between the two started in 2018.