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Westerville Man Sentenced For Causing Overdose Death

WCBE 90.5FM | By Jim Letizia
Published May 15, 2014 at 7:03 AM EDT

A Westerville man was sentenced Wednesday to four years in prison for giving a friend a deadly dose of heroin. 38-year-old Shannon Shackson pleaded guilty to reckless homicide and drug possession charges. Shackson was facing more serious charges for causing the overdose death of 34-year-old Laura Bagot in 2012.

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Jim Letizia
Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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