Edward DeLaney.

• Position: People & Politics - Attempted murder by Augustus Mendenhall - Brief article

Indiana Representative Edward DeLaney was hospitalized in November with facial fractures and a broken rib after being attacked by the son of a man involved in a legal dispute over an adult bookstore 26 years ago. Augustus Mendenhall has been charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery and criminal confinement in the brutal beating. A witness to the attack called police. DeLaney, an attorney, thought he was meeting a prospective client about a land deal, but instead was allegedly attacked by Mendenhall, whose gun jammed before he could shoot the lawmaker. Burke Mendenhall was sued in 1983 when the county prosecutor attempted to close down adult...