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South Bend shooting victim in critical condition\nSOUTH BEND, Ind. -- A woman shot by a co-worker who opened fire in a factory remained in critical condition in a local hospital Sunday evening.\nTina Tabler, 46, was shot twice with a shotgun at point-blank range when William Lockey went on a rampage Friday morning at Bertrand Products, an aviation parts-maker on the city's west side, her husband told the South Bend Tribune.\nFour people were killed before 54-year-old Lockey fled and then fatally shot himself during a police chase, authorities said.\nTabler and Dennis Jennings, 52, also were wounded at the plant. Jennings was listed in good condition Sunday.\nTina Tabler underwent five hours of surgery Saturday night, Mike Tabler said.\nHis wife was unable to speak, he said, "but she can squeeze your hand and nod her head."\nInvestigators spent the weekend searching for a motive for the shootings.\nHug mistaken for attack, one man stabbed to death\nANDERSON, Ind. -- A man who mistook an embrace for an attack stabbed another man to death after he hugged his mother, police said.\nMatthew Tyrone Zachary, a 38-year-old Anderson resident, was drunk when he stabbed 40-year-old Jay Harmon in the chest with a kitchen knife, authorities said. Harmon died early Saturday morning.\nZachary was being held without bond Sunday in the Madison County Jail.\nThe men and Zachary's mother, 61-year-old Sandra Scroggins, were drinking together when Harmon hugged Scroggins and Zachary mistook the gesture for an assault, police said.\nThe men argued, and Zachary grabbed a serrated knife and stabbed Harmon, police said.\nScroggins told police she did not interpret Harmon's embrace as violent and said she thought Zachary had overreacted.\nMan gets 60 years for killing pregnant woman, unborn child\nINDIANAPOLIS -- A 21-year-old Indianapolis man has been sentenced to 60 years in prison for murdering a pregnant woman and her unborn child.\n"It was a horrible, heinous crime," Judge Tanya Walton Pratt said Friday during a sentencing hearing for Carlos Antwan Robinson.\nProsecutors say Robinson, 21, and another man shot 19-year-old Lakeisha Williams to death on Sept. 23, 2000. She was eight months pregnant at the time, and the shots also killed her unborn daughter.\nLast month the jury found Robinson guilty and acquitted co-defendant Marcus Taylor, 20.\nPolice say Williams was sitting in the front seat of a car with her boyfriend and his 1-year-old daughter. Two men got into the car and fired several shots into the front seat, killing Williams and injuring the boyfriend and his daughter.\nInitially the motive was believed to be robbery, but Deputy Prosecutor Jeff Gill dismissed the robbery charges before the jury began deliberating.\nRobinson was convicted of two murder charges, two attempted-murder charges and carrying a firearm without a license. He faced a maximum sentence of 231 years in prison.\nPratt sentenced him on each count but ordered the time to be served concurrently. With good time credit, Robinson will be eligible for release after 30 years.\nConvicted state trooper jailed alone\nA former Indiana state trooper convicted of killing his wife and their children will likely be housed separately from other inmates for his own safety when he is sent to prison, a state correction official said.\nDavid Camm, 37, faces up to 195 years in prison -- 65 years for each count of murder, served consecutively -- after being convicted March 17 of murdering his wife, Kimberly, 35, and their children, Bradley, 7, and Jill, 5.\nHis sentencing is set for April 11.

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