<p>FRANKLIN, Ind. — A 16-year-old suburban Indianapolis boy <a href="https://apnews.com/article/indiana-shootings-indianapolis-franklin-9f49417c3d72dc9e63cf6db0ccbe67c1">charged as an adult in another teen’s fatal shooting</a> has been sentenced to more than two years in prison after pleading guilty to criminal recklessness and a weapons charge.</p>
<p>A Johnson County judge sentenced Marcus Salatin on Friday to 825 days at a juvenile detention facility on the criminal recklessness charge, and 180 days to be served concurrently on a charge of carrying a handgun without a license.</p>
<p>Because the Greenwood teen has been incarcerated since shortly after 15-year-old Kashius Davis’ October 2020 death, he will serve about seven months in jail, and will likely be released in December, the <a href="http://www.dailyjournal.net/2021/05/14/salatin-to-serve-less-than-a-year-judge-decides/">Daily Journal </a> reported.</p>
<p>Salatin was initially charged with murder in Davis’ death. Davis, of Bargersville, was inside a car with two other teens when he was fatally shot and another of the teens was wounded in Greenwood, just south of Indianapolis.</p>
<p>In April, Salatin pleaded guilty to the two lesser charges — a move that was protested by Davis’ relatives, who questioned why the murder charge was dropped and said the justice system had failed them.</p>
<p>The Johnson County Prosecutor’s office said Salatin was offered a plea agreement because the two teens who were inside the same car when Davis was shot had “repeatedly lied.” Prosecutors also said new evidence had bolstered Salatin’s self-defense claim.</p>
<p>Salatin’s defense attorney, Carrie Miles, said the two other teens in the car had a “beef” with Salatin and brought Davis into it.</p>
