Maria Blessing Pleads Guilty, Faces up to Five Years

June 28, 2011

Michael Ferryman shot and killed Clark County Sheriff's Deputy Suzanne Waughtel Hopper, and shot and injured German Township Police Officer Jeremy Blum on January 1, 2011. His girlfriend at the time was Maria Blessing and Blessing gave Ferryman the .12 gauge shotgun he used to shoot the deputies. She pleaded guilty to complicity to weapons under disability and obstruction of justice as you can read here.

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