Man gets 18 years to life in prison

A Springfield man won’t be eligible for parole for at least 18 years after he received a life sentence Friday.

Tevious Turner, 35, was found guilty of murder in the death of 29-year-old Melody Turner. He was also convicted and sentenced to 30 months for tampering with evidence and 18 months for improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle. He received a life sentence for murder with the possibility of parole after 18 years. He will serve the other sentences concurrently.

Melody Turner and Tevious Turner aren’t related.

Melody Turner was found bleeding and unresponsive in the driver’s seat of a car at the intersection of East North and Spring streets on Nov. 18, according to court records. She later died.

During the trial prosecutors said Tevious Turner got into a fight with Melody Turner’s cousin over a paycheck. When the cousin refused to give Tevious Turner the check, he reached into his car, grabbed a gun and reached into the car where the cousin was a passenger and Melody Turner was the driver.

Melody Turner began to back the car up, prosecutors said, when Tevious Turner fired the shot that hit her.

Before his sentence was read, Tevious Turner apologized.

“I would like to say I’m deeply sorry to the family for their loss, for my actions,” he said

The sentence should have been harsher because her death was needless, said Clarissa Turner, Melody Turner’s mother.

“For $400, you take somebody’s life,” she said.

But she said this is only the beginning of her fight for her daughter.

“I’m going to be protesting against gun violence,” she said. “I’m going to start here first.”

Her daughter was kind, she said, and everyone who knew her will remember her in that way.

“Melody is a beautiful child,” she said. “Someone you would adore. Just sweet, outgoing.”

Tevious Turner plans to appeal his conviction, according to his attorney Ben Swift, on the basis that his actions warranted a charge of reckless homicide but not murder.

A smokestack that’s been a part of the Cincinnati skyline for more than 150 years is scheduled for demolition.

The Greater Cincinnati Redevelopment Authority says the signature Hudepohl smokestack on top of the former Hudepohl Brewery will be torn down when demolition of the building begins in about six months. The Cincinnati Enquirer reports asbestos must be removed from the site before demolition can occur.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the site is littered with hazardous toxins like asbestos.

The redevelopment authority bought the brewery complex for $400,000 in May 2014. It estimated the cost of environmental cleanup and demolition at $4 million. Sharpe with several stab wounds. She was pronounced dead a short time later at a nearby Columbus hospital.

Police say Lachelle Anderson was arrested and has been charged with murder.

It’s unclear if Anderson has an attorney who could comment on her behalf.

A central Ohio county is selling off an assortment of collectible sneakers seized from a convicted drug dealer.

The Columbus Dispatch reports there are 67 boxes of confiscated footwear up for sale by Licking County officials. Bids will be accepted through Sept. 15 on the website GovDeals.com.

Proceeds will be used to fund drug investigations by the Licking County law enforcement task force that found the sneakers.

The name-brand shoes range in size from 10 to 12.

The 48-year-old Newark man who owned the sneakers received 11 years in prison last month after being convicted of possessing more than a half-pound of cocaine and 100 pills containing the deadly opioid fentanyl.

He is being held at a prison in Orient while officials determine where he’ll ultimately serve his sentence.