FRANKFORT, Ind.—A man charged with killing a former girlfriend and her grandmother outside an Indiana factory in 2021 has pleaded guilty in a deal that takes a possible death penalty off the table, authorities said.
Gary Ferrell II, who was 26 years old at the time, was accused of fatally shooting Promise Mays, 21, and Pamela Sledd, 62, during a shift change at NHK Seating of America in Frankfort, 50 miles northwest of Indianapolis. The evidence included factory security video.
Ferrell had tried to force Mays into the trunk of his car, according to a police affidavit filed earlier in the case.
Ferrell pleaded guilty Tuesday in Clinton County court, the prosecutor’s office said….