Theopulus Gordon could have prevented the death of Eric Robinson last September, but he didn’t.The rural Ossian man who shot and killed a 4-year-old boy last summer was sentenced to 40 years in prison Tuesday morning in Wells County Circuit Court.
Bruce Pond, 47, pleaded guilty in mid-December to a single charge of voluntary manslaughter, admitting that he acted in "sudden heat" when he fired a .22-caliber rifle into the darkness, angry at a light being used by the boy, his father and his uncle while they were fishing at a nearby private pond.
Jacob "Jake" Michuda collapsed silently next to his father and uncle as they stood on a small pier and died from a gunshot wound to the head.
After Pond fired the shots and heard the wail of emergency workers rushing to the scene, he pushed the gun toward his son, telling him to hide it, according to court documents.
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