Criminal Law

Man Convicted of Shooting Indianapolis Police Officer Gets an 87-Year Prison Sentence

A man convicted of shooting an Indianapolis police officer in the throat during a 2022 shootout that followed a car crash has been sentenced to 87 years in prison.

A Marion County judge sentenced Mylik Hill, 33, on Monday in the shooting that seriously wounded first-year Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department Officer Thomas Mangan. The officer suffered damage to his voice box and Adam’s apple when Hill shot him in the throat at the base of his neck in February 2022.

A jury convicted Hill last month of two counts of attempted murder, six counts of resisting law enforcement and one count of possession of a firearm by a serious violent felon.

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