AUBURN, Ind. (AP) — A prosecutor filed a murder charge Thursday and requested a sentence of life without parole against a man accused driving his car over an Indiana state trooper in northeastern Indiana.

DeKalb County Prosecutor Neal Blythe also filed two counts of resisting law enforcement and one count of operating with a controlled substance resulting in death against Terry Sands II, 42, of Marion in connection with the March 3 death of Indiana State Police Master Trooper James Bailey, 50, of Auburn.

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