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Ely Serna, who is accused in the Jan. 20 West Liberty-Salem High School shooting, has entered a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity to 13 felony charges.
His attorney, Dennis Lieberman filed the plea via motions this week in Champaign County Common Pleas Court.
Lieberman also asked the court to dismiss the case and transfer it back to juvenile court. A juvenile judge moved the case to adult court earlier this month.
A Champaign County grand jury then handed up an indictment accusing the 17-year-old of two counts of attempted murder; three counts of felonious assault; six counts of improperly discharging a firearm in a school; and single counts of inducing panic and illegal conveyance of a firearm into a school.
Each of the attempted murder and felonious assault counts specify a gun was used in the commission of the crime.
Authorities claim the high school junior took a partially disassembled 12-gauge shotgun to the school Jan. 20 and shot Logan Cole twice when the then 16-year-old schoolmate found the shooter assembling the weapon in a restroom.
Logan was seriously injured and continues his recovery.
Serna then allegedly exited the restroom and shot at a teacher and then randomly shot at classrooms before he was detained by school staff.
Another student was grazed by a shotgun pellet, but not injured.
In all, six shots were fired in the school.