People v. Arnett

A Madison County jury convicted Gene Arnett, defendant, of first-degree murder for the Interstate 270 shotgun shooting of Todd Scrum. He was sentenced to 40 years’ imprisonment.

Defendant, while riding as a passenger in his own car, fired a shotgun out of the passenger window and hit Scrum, who was driving alongside defendant on Interstate 270.

Four days after the shooting, while investigating the scene of a residential burglary, officers from the Madison County Sheriff’s Department spotted a car parked in a secluded area near railroad tracks, 100 yards from a burglarized house. Because the car…