Two men and a teenager were sentenced for holding a mixed-animal veterinarian at gunpoint while his house was ransacked. The veterinarian was at home with his daughter during the incident. On a January evening in 2006, Dr. Wayne McMahen, DVM, and hiswife drove 30 miles out of town to watch their daughter, a high-school cheerleader, perform at a basketball game. Afterward, his wife went to his practice, McMahen Veterinary Hospital in Springhill, La., to get an early start on month-end reports. He headed home —just across town —around 10 p.m. to meet his daughter, where they became the victims of a home invasion.
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