The Ohio highway sniper attacks were a series of 24 sniper attacks along Interstate 270 and other nearby highways in the central part of the U.S. state of Ohio (mostly around Columbus) against traffic, homes, and a school building in the Hamilton Local School district in Columbus, Ohio.
[1] The suspect, Charles A. McCoy Jr., was arrested in Las Vegas on March 17, 2004.
The first trial with death penalty charges resulted in a hung jury on May 9, 2005, most likely due to McCoy's severe mental illness.
Rather than face a retrial, McCoy accepted a plea arrangement where he avoided the death sentence.
After pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter and ten other counts, he was sentenced to 27 years in prison on August 9, 2005.