A Quarryville man was convicted of two counts of attempted homicide and one count of robbery on January 6^th in Lancaster County Court.

Robert Sheets, 34, remains in Lancaster County Prison on $1 million bail after the jury returned guilty verdicts on the three felonies after a three-day trial.

Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Ponessa presented evidence during the trial of Sheets shooting a man in the chest, leaving him to die, and returning to shoot him in the head the next day when he realized the victim was still alive.

The shootings occurred on August 14 and 15 of 2017 in a wooded area near Main Street in Conestoga, Manor Township.

“It was 41 hours from the time the defendant picked up the victim until the time he crawled out of the cornfield and found help,” Ponessa said during her closing argument. “He was shot in the chest and left for dead, only later being shot in the back of the head and hit with a hatchet on his head and neck and again left for dead.”

The victim suffered a lacerated lung, extensive internal bleeding, three deep lacerations to his head and neck, and a shattered jaw as a round traveled along his jawline. Sheets also stole the victim’s wallet, which contained about $400, and cell phone after the first shooting.

Ponessa said what the victim went through was “straight out of a horror film.” The victim crawled through a cornfield in August heat, drank from mud puddles and didn’t know if he’d find any help.

“But from the moment he crawled out of the cornfield, to the moment he was recovering in the hospital, to the moment he came into court to testify, he always said from the beginning that ‘Bobby Sheets did this to me,’” Ponessa said.

The victim was able to walk to an Oak Road home in Manor Township after the shootings.

Sheets was arrested in Virginia after leading police on a 30-mile chase into Fauquier County a few days after the shootings.

Sentencing will occur at a later date.

State Police Trooper Michael Snyder filed charges.

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