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Gunsmith Sentenced In Stray Shot That Killed Man
Man Gets 60-Day Sentence
POSTED: 1:59 pm EST February 9, 2010
UPDATED: 2:25 pm EST February 9, 2010
MONROVIA, Ind. -- A gunsmith who fired the stray bullet that killed a man as he slept in his central Indiana home has been sentenced to 60 days in jail.John Graf, of Monrovia, apologized during a Morgan County court hearing after pleading guilty to a felony criminal recklessness charge in the March 2009 death of Jason Breisch, 35.Graf had trouble looking at Breisch's widow and three children as he spoke.The judge ordered Graf to also serve a year in a county work release center.Graf admitted to investigators that he had been test-shooting a .45-caliber handgun he was trying to repair.Authorities said Breisch was asleep in his bedroom within 1,000 feet of Graf's home when he was shot in the chest.Breisch's wife called 911 after her husband complained of chest pain. Neither realized that he had been shot, police said. Breisch died on the way to a nearby hospital.The neighbor of a man killed by a stray bullet in his home will be charged in the man's death, the Morgan County prosecutor said.
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