CROWN POINT, Ind. (AP) — A man who pleaded guilty to fatally shooting a northwest Indiana teenager who was trying to sell an Xbox has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.
In sentencing 19-year-old Garry L. Higgins IV on Wednesday, a Lake County judge rejected his defense attorney’s arguments that the Gary man deserved leniency because he had a turbulent childhood.
The Times of Northwest Indiana reports Higgins received the maximum sentence under his plea agreement, but the judge suspended two years in favor of probation.
Higgins had pleaded guilty in July to attempted robbery resulting in serious bodily injury in the June 2019 shooting death of 16-year-old Johnny Peluyera.
