LANSING - Edwin Langston didn’t fire the bullet that killed Arretta Lou Ingrham.

He wasn’t inside the Maple Street Grocery Store in South Haven on the December afternoon in 1975 when Ronald Wilson robbed the store and shot Ingrham as she tried to call the police.

Langston had told Wilson he wanted nothing to do with a robbery “because it carried too much time,” according to a trial transcript. He was down the block, visiting some women he knew.

But Langston had stopped into the store to buy some orange juice and told Wilson how many people were inside, knowing the other man wanted to rob it.

When Wilson came running down the block after the robbery, Langston left with him. He later advised Wilson to burn a wallet he’d taken from Ingrham’s husband.

Both men were convicted of murder in

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