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in Madison. Johnson's wife, Barbara, found him lying on the floor and saw a man walking to a dark sedan that was parked outside.
• An arrest affidavit suggests the incident might have been sparked by a decades-old grudge that originated when Johnson and Ericsson were students at Madison High.
• Ericsson told Judge Vince Foley on Tuesday that he rang the doorbell at Johnson's house but first asked his old classmate to verify his identity before shooting him with a .45-caliber pistol.
• "I guess it was from something that happened over 50 years ago," Ericsson said during his arraignment hearing. "It was apparently in my subconscious."
• Ericsson didn't specify what decades-old incident sparked the grudge, and Lake

County State's Attorney Kenneth Meyer said he, too, had no idea what prompted the shooting.
• "That's why it's beyond senseless," Meyer said after the hearing.
• Ericsson pleaded not guilty to a first-degree murder charge in February and requested a jury trial. But Meyer and defense attorney Scott Bratland announced May 1 that a deal had been reached.
• The first-degree murder charge could have carried

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