Jan 7, 2009 5:44 pm US/Central
17-Year-Old Gets 97 Years For Fatal Stabbing
CROWN POINT, Ind. (Post-Tribune) ―
A 17-year-old northwest Indiana man was sentenced to 97 years in prison for fatally stabbing a man who interrupted a 2007 burglary.
Lake Superior Court Judge Salvador Vasquez sentenced Kenneth Zamarron to 97 years for the stabbing death of Gregory Grudzien of Griffith.
Zamarron, who testified that Grudzien's blood got on him while he was trying to revive the man as he lay dying in a Hammond neighborhood, put the blame for the crimes on co-defendant Victor A. Hernandez, 17, and a second person who hasn't been implicated.
Zamarron said he and Hernandez had been drinking brandy before the crimes, and he accused Hernandez and the other individual of putting pills into the liquor without his knowledge.
A criminal court jury convicted Zamarron of murder, murder in perpetration of a robbery, murder in perpetration of a burglary, robbery, two counts of attempted carjacking, two counts of attempted confinement and animal cruelty after about two hours of deliberations on Nov. 24.
Hernandez is serving a 95-year sentence for murder in perpetration of a burglary, two counts of attempted carjacking, two counts of attempted confinement and burglary.
On Nov. 29, 2007, Grudzien, 58, interrupted a burglary in the 7500 block of Olcott Avenue in Hammond, when he went to walk his business partner's dog before he relieved her at the bar they co-owned.
(CBS 2 and the Post-Tribune are news partners covering stories in the communities of northwest Indiana. Send story tips to tips@cbs2chicago.com. (© MMIX, CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved.)
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