Student charged in shooting case pleads not guilty
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A Purdue student who was charged in a fatal shooting case last month entered a not guilty plea Friday.
Cory Lynch, a 22-year-old Purdue student, was charged Wednesday with three felonies: reckless homicide, criminal recklessness and pointing a loaded firearm.
William Calderon, a 22-year-old former Purdue student, was charged Wednesday with false informing and pointing an unloaded firearm, both misdemeanors.
Aug. 22, 21-year-old Landon Siela, a student at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne, was visiting Lynch and Calderon at a Wiggins Street apartment. After playing with airsoft guns, police said Lynch and Calderon tried to play a joke on Siela by pointing firearms, which they believed to be unloaded, at Siela as he exited a bathroom. Siela was killed when the .45-caliber handgun Lynch was holding inadvertently discharged, striking Siela in the neck. Police called the incident a joke gone wrong.
Lynch is out on bond, with requirement that he avoid drugs, alcohol and the handling of weapons or firearms.