No more charges in delayed homicide

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) - A prosecutor says no additional criminal charges can be filed in the case of a Fort Wayne man who died from complications of being shot in the neck 29 years ago .

Allen County Prosecutor Karen Richards tells The Journal Gazette ( http://bit.ly/IkunoU ) that the man who shot 44-year-old Brian Burtz served his sentence and can't be charged again for the same event.

The county coroner's office ruled Burtz's Friday death a homicide, saying he died of sepsis, a complication from being left a quadriplegic.

Burtz was shot in 1983 near a Fort Wayne bus terminal by an employee who believed the then-15-year-old was trying to burglarize the depot. Then-59-year-old Clifford Justice of Indianapolis pleaded guilty to criminal recklessness, saying he accidentally shot Burtz. He was sentenced to probation.