GUILTY NC - Trooper David 'Shawn' Blanton, 24, fatally shot, Canton, 17 June 2008

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Slain trooper's infant son dies

Posted: Today at 8:56 a.m.
Updated: 10 minutes ago
Asheville, N.C. — The infant son of a slain trooper died late Thursday at Mission Hospitals in Asheville, according to hospital officials.
Tye Blanton was born prematurely, two weeks before his father's death.
Trooper David Shawn Blanton, 24, was shot to death in June during a traffic stop on Interstate 40 near Canton.

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/3757368/

and from the Asheville paper:
http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200881017017
 
Very tragic so much pain and heartache for her to have to deal with. May God give her the strength she needs. Her family will be one of her strongest rocks to lean on. RIP baby boy.
 
So tragic. Father and son are together now.
 
I just read this on WRAL.

It breaks my heart.

That poor woman. I will remember her in my prayers for a longtime.
 
Oh, that poor woman. How much heartache can one human being stand?
 
From December 2010:

http://www.westerncarolinian.com/news/view.php/417479/Wong-sentenced-to-life-in-Blanton-trial-

Nearly two and a half years after North Carolina Highway Patrol State Trooper Shawn Blanton was murdered on Interstate 40 in Haywood County, the court case against Edwardo Wong, his murderer, finally ended.

Blanton, a native of the Cherokee area, was the first member of The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to have become a state trooper...

A jury convicted Wong of first-degree murder on Oct. 14 in Catawba County; the same jury spent six days deliberating during the sentencing phase of the trial but was unable to agree on a punishment. North Carolina law states that in the event a jury cannot reach a decision to sentence one to the death penalty, then a Judge must impose a life imprisonment with the possibility of parole, which is exactly what Wong received.
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