Remaining charges against Sam Shelton dismissed

KSDK -- The remaining legal battles for a man already doing time in prison for trying to kill a teenage girl have come to an end.

Prosecutors in St. Clair County, Illinois dropped an aggravated battery charge against 29-year-old Sam Shelton Monday.

Shelton, a former Freeburg High School teacher, was accused of attacking emergency workers during a suicide attempt while in custody.

Shelton pleaded guilty in 2007 of trying to kill then 17-year-old Ashley Reeves.  In 2006, Shelton tried to break the girl's neck and left her for dead in a wooded area of a park near Belleville.

Reeves was a former student of Shelton and during a statement to police, he said the two had a brief sexual relationship.

Shelton will be eligible for parole in 2024.