Sentence handed down in Jennings gun shop murder case

A man involved in the 2014 murder of a Jennings County firearms dealer will serve 30 years in federal prison.

U.S. Attorney Josh Minkler has announced that 24-year-old Darion D. Harris was sentenced last week in the robbery that led to the death of Scott Maxie at the Muscatatuck Outdoors Gun Shop.

Harris, of Indianapolis, along with two other men, traveled to North Vernon on Sept. 21st, 2014 to rob Maxie, after checking out the store the previous day. Darryl Worthen shot and killed Maxie, after which Worthen, Harris and the the third man took 45 guns from the store. Many of the guns were later sold.

Worthen was sentenced to 60 years in prison in 2015 in the case. The third man, DeJuan Worthen, has filed to enter a guilty plea in the case.