On April 2, Judge James L. Bowling Jr. sentenced Eddie Wayne Gray, 21, formerly of 321 S. 13th St., Middlesboro and more recently an inmate at the Bell County Jail, to 10 years in prison after accepting Gray's March 7 guilty plea to attempted murder, and 90 days in jail, to be served concurrently. The charges are in connection with a July 10 incident in which Bell County Sheriff's Deputy Sean Pursifull was shot at and a K-9 police dog was shot. Gray also was sentenced to serve 10 years, consecutive with all other sentences, after pleading guilty to robbery in connection with the same July 10 incident, during which he, during at theft at Brock's Market of Pineville, pointed a handgun at Kayla Jackson, a store clerk, and told another clerk, Brenda Lawson, that he would kill Jackson if she didn't sit down.
Gray also was sentenced to serve 10 years in prison, to be served concurrently, after pleading guilty to burglary in connection with a June 20, 2005 incident in which he entered the home of Jessie Adkins of Middlesboro with a deadly weapon, intending to commit a crime.
The defendant also was sentenced to serve three years in prison and 12 months in the Bell County Jail, again, concurrently, after pleading guilty to one count each of fleeing/evading police and operating a motor vehicle while under suspension or revocation for driving under the influence, respectively. The charges are in connection with a March 21, 2005 incident in which he knowingly disobeyed Middlesboro Police Lt. Robin Venable's signals to stop his vehicle. Nine additional charges, including eight counts of improper passing and one count of speeding, were dismissed.
Gray also was sentenced to serve three years in prison, to be served concurrently, after pleading guilty to one count of theft in connection with a June 20, 2005 incident involving some stolen games and a play station belonging to Michael Fultz of Middlesboro. A second charge of tampering with physical evidence was dismissed.
Gray was one of several defendants sentenced recently in Bell Circuit Court, including:
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