Now This Is An Interesting Murder Case

Back in 1966, William Barnes shot and injured Walter Barclay, a police officer, rendering the officer paralyzed.  The police officer died last year.  What’s interesting is that the shooter was charged with murder. See here.

Prosecutors say a urinary tract infection that afflicted Barclay was a direct result of his paralysis. That in turn was caused when Barnes shot him in the spine during an attempted break-in on November 27, 1966.

This could be a setting for an interesting story.  What if the the police officer has been injured by a second criminal ten or twenty years after the first shooting. Which of the two criminals would be charged?  Assuming they had proof that could go either way as to which injury killed the officer, who’s to say that the powers-that-be wouldn’t use the opportunity to put the criminal of their choosing in jail.