SCHENECTADY, N.Y. (AP) - A 22-year-old man shot by a
police officer at the offices of a Schenectady newspaper has been
sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison for charging at officers with a
knife.
The Daily Gazette of Schenectady reports that Elvis Norwood was sentenced Friday in Schenectady County Court,
where he'd pleaded guilty in November to a felony count of menacing a
police officer.
Authorities say Norwood was armed with a kitchen
knife and apparently off his medications for paranoid schizophrenia when
he was shot several times by 1 of the two Schenectady police officers
he charged inside the Daily Gazette's lobby in October 2011.
Norwood apologized for the attack. A judge said she took his mental illness into account while not imposing a harsher sentence.
Information from: The Daily Gazette, http://www.dailygazette.com/
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