Monday, February 8, 2010
Additional aggravated battery counts have been dropped against Sam Shelton, a former southwestern Illinois high school teacher serving time for trying to kill a teenager.
Sam Shelton
According to the St. Clair County State’s Attorney’s office, the counts were dismissed on Monday. The counts stem from when he allegedly kicked a nurse and spit on a police officer who responded to a suicide attempt.
A jury cleared Shelton, a former Freeburg High School teacher, of other counts in December.
All the counts pertain to an alleged attack on paramedics and a police officer in May 2007 who initially responded to the suicide attempt at Shelton’s home.
Shelton was under house arrest for the 2006 attempted murder of Ashley Reeves, then age 17. She was reportedly left for dead in a Belleville park.
Shelton plead guilty and is serving a 20-year prison sentence.
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