It was an ordinary day. At least for most of us it was ordinary, but for a fellow who lived in Conestoga, Pennsylvania it was a bit more than ordinary. Seems that a guy from nearby Quarryville named Robert was recently found guilty of two counts of attempted homicide and one count of robbery after twice trying to kill this fellow from Conestoga by various methods. On August 14, 2017 Robert shot a guy in the chest in a wooded area near Main Street in Conestoga, Manor Township. He stole the man's cellphone and wallet, which contained $400, and made sure his body wasn't visible and left him to die. The following morning the poor guy who had been shot awoke and began yelling for help, but instead found that Robert had returned to make sure he was dead. This time Robert shot him in the head as well as hit the guy three times with a hatchet he had brought along and left him for dead once again. 41 hours after the first assault with the gun, the guy crawled out of the cornfield in the August heat after drinking from mud puddles and found help. He finally made it to a nearby house on Oak Road in Manor Township. The police were called immediately and the man told them that Robert had taken him to the woods by saying he wanted to show him something. Well, at the hospital they found that he had a lacerated lung, extensive internal bleeding, three deep cuts to his head and neck and a shattered jaw from the second bullet which traveled along his jaw line. Mr. Robert Sheets was arrested on August 19, 2017 in Fauquier County, Virginia after a 30-mile chase. He was charged there with a weapons violation and fleeing and eluding and was taken to jail. Well, seems like Mr. Sheets has finally, after all these years, been found guilty of shooting the man twice, including once in the head, in an attempt to kill him over the course of those two days. After all that time in jail he has finally been told he will spend quite a bit more of his life in jail. A date for his sentencing has not been set as of yet, but I'm sure that by 2025 they should have a sentence ready for him. The entire story seems surreal and hard to believe. At first I checked to make sure it wasn't April 1, 2021, but discovered it really was January 27, 2022. I still find it hard to believe that the event took place in 2017 and even harder to believe that the poor guy didn't die after being shot twice in the head and hit over the head three times with a hatchet. And folks...I'd didn't make any of this up! I swear to it! The newspaper's headline read: "Man shot twice, left for dead, 'straight out of a horror film'". It was another extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary guy.
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