Former Creston resident Harold Stutler was released from home confinement and placed on parole yesterday, following a hearing before Judge David Nibert in Grantsville.
Stutler appeared with his attorney Tony Morgan, requesting the change. Prosecutor Matt Minney requested that Stutler remain on home confinement.
Stutler had been on home confinement after he was found guilty of shooting his brother-in-law, Little Creek resident Richard Starcher.
Stutler plead guilty of second degree attempted murder, after initially being charged with attempted 1st degree murder and malicious wounding.
Stutler turned himself in to then Sheriff Allen Parsons in August 2003, after the ambush-style shooting on Ace Haney Hill, a remote area southeast of Creston.
Starcher received injuries after three or four shotgun blasts struck his pick-up truck. Stutler fired upon Starcher after lying in wait along a rural road.
Stutler had been placed on home confinement in August, 2004, and has been living in Wirt County.
During yesterday's hearing Stutler agreed to numerous conditions of his parole, which will last for two years and ten months.
The shooting happened after a family dispute over adjoining property.
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