A Lancaster County man has been convicted of trying to kill a man in two shootings that were “straight out of a horror film,” prosecutors said Wednesday.
Robert Sheets, 34, of Quarryville, shot a man in the chest in August of 2017 in a wooded area of Manor Township, then returned the next day and shot him in the head when Sheets realized he wasn’t dead yet. He also stole the man’s wallet, which held his cell phone and $400, according to the Lancaster County District Attorney’s Office.
The victim crawled through a corn field to get help with a lacerated lung, extensive internal bleeding and a shattered jaw from a round that went through his jawline. He drank from mud puddles to stay alive, prosecutors said.
“It was 41 hours from the time the defendant picked up the victim until the time he crawled out of the cornfield and found help,” said Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Ponessa during closing arguments. “He was shot in the chest and left for dead, only later being shot in the back of the head and hit with a hatchet on his head and neck and again left for dead.”
Sheets is being held in prison on $1 million bail while he awaits sentencing on attempted homicide and robbery charges.
“From the moment [the victim] crawled out of the cornfield, to the moment he was recovering in the hospital, to the moment he came into court to testify, he always said from the beginning that ‘Bobby Sheets did this to me,’” Ponessa said.
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