Man gets 53 years for shooting pregnant bank teller

Indianapolis Star

An Indianapolis man was sentenced to 53 years in prison Friday for shooting a pregnant bank teller during a robbery, ending a case that inspired stiffer feticide penalties in state law.

Katherin Shuffield, 32, who lost both of her unborn twins after the April 2008 shooting, described her heartache in court before Brian Kendrick's sentence was announced.

She flashed between two moments; the first was just before the incident, when she and her husband learned their twins would both be girls. "We were so excited for our family to grow," she said.