Grudge murderer gets life in prison - KOTA Territory News

Grudge murderer gets life in prison

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MADISON, S.D. (AP) A prosecutor says a jockstrap put over a student sports manager's head in a high school locker room more than 50 years ago led a 73-year-old South Dakota man to fatally shoot his long-ago classmate.
      

Carl Ericsson of Watertown was sentenced to life in prison Friday after pleading guilty but mentally ill last month to second-degree murder. Ericsson was charged in the Jan. 31 killing
of retired Madison High School teacher and track coach Norman Johnson, who was shot twice in the face.
      

Lake County State's Attorney Ken Meyer said Ericsson indicated that the decades-old locker room incident led to the shooting. Johnson was a high school sports star and Ericsson was a student manager.
      

Johnson's daughter, Beth Ribstein, said Ericsson was always jealous of her father's success.

       
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