ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) - A Vermont man accused of shooting two people in a truck stopped outside his home and killing one of them has pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder.
Ethan Gratton appeared in court Tuesday in St. Albans. A judge ruled he would be held without bail pending bail hearing.
The shooting happened Monday in Georgia.
A preliminary investigation shows two Fairfax men were traveling in a truck with a lowboy flatbed trailer attached. The truck was stopped in a roadway near the entrance to the driveway of Gratton’s Georgia home.
Investigators say Gratton confronted the two men and shot them in the roadway.
Authorities say 57-year-old David Hill was found dead. Twenty-seven-year-old Mark Brito was hospitalized in Burlington with life-threatening injuries.
Gratton was taken into custody at the scene.
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