Shooter gets 37 years for slaying neighbor

4/22/2011
BLADE STAFF

FINDLAY — A Findlay man convicted of fatally shooting his neighbor in 2009 was sentenced Thursday to 37 years in prison.

Cornelius Patterson, Jr., 31, was convicted of aggravated murder, aggravated burglary, improper discharge of a firearm into a habitation, and tampering with evidence stemming from the Oct. 18, 2009, death of David Snyder, 26, his neighbor at the Melrose Manor apartments.