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Jul 8, 2009 6:48 pm US/Central

Teen Gets 10 Years For Attack On T-Shirt Designer

CROWN POINT, Ill. (Sun-Times Media Wire) ― A northwest Indiana teen has been sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for hitting a man over the head with a chair while the victim was designing a memorial T-shirt.

John Wesley Rendell, 17, of Gary, pleaded guilty to aggravated battery on June 3, according to a release from the Lake County (Ind.) Prosecutor's office.

Prosecutors said that on Sept. 11, 2008, Rendell went into Midwest Graphics in the 3700 block of Broadway in Gary and asked to have an R.I.P. T-shirt made honoring his recently deceased cousin.

While the 21-year-old Hobart, Ind., store employee was making the T-shirt, Rendell stepped behind the counter and hit him with a wooden chair in the back of the head. The victim received a skull fracture and wound which required 18 staples to close, the release said.

(Source: Sun-Times Media Wire © Chicago Sun-Times 2009. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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