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As a subscriber you can listen to articles at work, in the car, or while you work out. Subscribe NowA central Indiana man has been sentenced to 50 years in prison for shooting two people before being shot by police.
Madison Circuit Judge Angela Warner-Sims sentenced 40-year-old Atul Navalo of Anderson on Monday. He pleaded guilty but mentally ill to charges of attempted murder, aggravated battery and pointing a firearm in the shootings last July 3.
Navalo shot 51-year-old Howard McCoy and 30-year-old Daniel A. Dollar before being shot by Anderson police Officer Shad Grile.
McCoy and Dollar received non-life-threatening injuries.
Grile received the department's Medal of Valor, Life Saving Award and Combat Cross for his actions in the incident.
Navalo declined to offer a statement at his sentencing hearing. The (Anderson) Herald Bulletin reports members of his family declined to comment after the hearing.
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