On the morning of August 6, 1968, in Elkhart, Indiana, a 51-year-old male train engineer from Niles, Michigan, named John W. "Wes" Marshall became the target of a calculated and brutal ambush. Marshall had just completed a run from Chicago and was in the Robert R. Young Penn Central Railroad yard, standing near his diesel locomotive. As he prepared to finish his shift, he was struck by multiple blasts from a 12-gauge shotgun. The assailant, firing from close range, hit Marshall in the midsection
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