Columbus, Ohio

From the Columbus Dispatch of August 8, 2006

Man gets nine years for East Side robbery

A man whose cousin was fatally shot during a robbery attempt in October pleaded guilty yesterday to four counts of aggravated robbery.

Larry Laury, 25, was sentenced to nine years in prison by Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Angela White. A murder charge was dismissed in exchange for the plea.

Laury admitted that he, his cousin and another man went to an apartment on Canterbury Way on the East Side on Oct. 25 and held seven people at gunpoint.

When another man entered the apartment and saw the assailants, he opened fire with a shotgun. Quanta Douglas, 33, of South Carolina, was struck and killed.

Laury, who was a lookout, ran and did not fire his weapon. The third man was never identified or arrested.

The man who shot Douglas, Michael Cooper, was cleared of wrongdoing.