Trio sentenced for slaying on Near East Side
The case against three men accused in a deadly robbery on the Near East Side was wrapped up this week when the final two defendants were sentenced to prison.
Silas T. Hill, 38, and Marcus J. Wright, 33, each pleaded guilty on Wednesday to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated robbery in the Nov. 8, 2018, death of 42-year-old Dwayne L. Madison.
Both men, South Side residents, were sentenced by Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Kim Brown to nine years in prison as part of plea agreements.
The triggerman in the case, Hubert Glanton II, 38, was sentenced two weeks ago to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to the same offenses, plus two gun specifications.
Brown imposed that sentence, which also was based on a plea agreement.
Assistant Prosecutor Michael Mclean said during each plea hearing that the three defendants had planned to rob Madison during a pre-arranged drug deal in the parking lot outside an apartment building in the Mount Vernon Apartments complex at the corner of 20th Street and Mount Vernon Avenue.
He said Glanton, of the Near East Side, shot Madison after he and the accomplices walked up to an SUV in which Madison was sitting in the driver's seat.
Madison managed to drive a short distance out of the parking lot and along 19th Street before the SUV crashed into a parked car in the 900 block of Mount Vernon Avenue, spinning it up onto the sidewalk in front of a storefront. The SUV then bounced off the car and went through a concrete block wall of a gated parking lot alongside the business before coming to a stop.
Madison was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police said video footage from a nearby security camera helped identify the suspects. jfutty@dispatch.com @johnfutty