Editor's note: This is the second installment in a two-part series about the third anniversary of Terris Ross' killing.
Yesterday marked the third anniversary of the murder of Terris Ross. The day passed - like many days do - with no new information about who killed him.
Ross, 23 at the time, was shot and killed as he sat in the driver's seat of a late-model Cadillac Sedan DeVille in the University Commons parking lot.
In the three years since his murder, the case has been peppered with legal setbacks that are causing Ross' family to lose hope that his killer ever will be arrested.
No one has been arrested or charged in connection with the case.
It's bad enough that we have to deal with that he's gone forever
but it adds a whole bunch more pain on top of it that the person got away with it said Angel Ross, who was engaged to Ross and pregnant with the couple's two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Teaira, when he was killed.
The most recent development in the case came in the Ohio Court of Appeals. On June 29, the appellate court denied an appeal from Cynthia Lanning, who was previously convicted in the Athens County Court of Common Pleas for perjury during a grand jury hearing about Ross' murder.
Because grand jury hearings are closed and their court records sealed, little information is known about what exactly the hearing was about. However, according to court documents from the Ohio Fourth District Court of Appeals regarding Lanning's appeal, she committed perjury when asked about a telephone conversation she had with a man police were investigating in connection with Ross' murder.
The grand jury subpoenaed Lanning and granted her transactional immunity relating to her testimony regarding the murder of Terrace Ross and the shooting of Nyra Mays. Brad McLain was a suspect in the murder and the shooting because Ross's cell phone discovered in the car where he was murdered
revealed that the last outgoing phone call Ross made was to McLain's cell phone. The grand jury sought Lanning's testimony because of her relationship to McLain
the court document from the Fourth Appellate District of the Ohio Court of Appeals states.
Lanning is currently completing her sentence in a halfway house, Athens County Prosecutor C. David Warren said.
Lt. John Withers of the Athens Police Department would not confirm if McLain is still a suspect in Ross' murder, but he said, I would think that nothing's changed since then (the time of the hearing).
Angel knew about Lanning's perjury conviction - and that McLain and Ross had contact the day he was killed --- but she said she still does not understand why no one has been arrested for her fianc+
she said. In the first place
they put up a good front. They had me believing they were going to do something
then it got to be a year later
and two years later
and now
I think they're playing me.
Prosecutor Warren said Ross' murder is still under investigation but would not comment on whether the authorities have received any new information about the crime.
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