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Noted killer could get 166 years
10/26/2006
By Jon Murray
The Indianapolis Star
A 23-year-old man convicted of murder Wednesday faces up to 166 more years in prison on top of a previous sentence for another killing.
Terrance "Mob" Anderson's police record has been fodder in Democrat Melina Kennedy's election campaign to unseat Republican Prosecutor Carl Brizzi. Kennedy has argued that Anderson should have been in jail when he killed two men in a two-day period last year on Indianapolis' Eastside.
On June 10, 2005, Anderson fatally shot Tyric Rudolph, 16, and injured two 12- and 14-year-old boys at North and Gray streets. The day before those shootings, Anderson killed Thomas Edmondson, 21, in the 900 block of North Dearborn Street.
A Marion Superior Court jury found Anderson guilty Wednesday in the Rudolph case. He also was convicted of two counts of attempted murder, two counts of aggravated battery and carrying a handgun without a license.
Judge Tanya Walton Pratt will sentence Anderson on Nov. 3. He is already serving a 60-year sentence for Edmondson's murder.
Last month, Kennedy questioned Anderson's release from jail in late May 2005 after prosecutors dropped charges in two shooting and drug cases. They later charged him in those cases after receiving new evidence, but he was not arrested before the murders of Edmondson and Rudolph.
Brizzi has defended the delay, saying evidence initially was insufficient to win convictions. Anderson's trial in those cases is pending. In one of them, he's accused of shooting two people during an argument. In the other, he's accused of gun and drug charges.
Outside court, Rudolph's mother, Twla McElwain, said deputy prosecutors Jennifer Haley and Michelle Sharpe "did an excellent job" in her son's case.
Anderson "can't destroy nobody else's family no more," McElwain said.
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