Former Tulsa fugitive sentenced in shooting death

TULSA — A 26-year-old woman was sentenced Wednesday to 12 years for fatally shooting another woman during a fight outside a north Tulsa residence last year.

Ashley Good, also known as Sevyn, was convicted last week on a first-degree manslaughter charge in the death of 31-year-old Jade Jones. The charge carried between four years and life imprisonment. District Judge Doug Drummond sentenced Good per the jury’s recommendation of a nine-year term for the manslaughter count and added three years for related firearms counts to which Good entered blind guilty pleas.

“She got punched once and she pulled the trigger (on Jones),” Assistant District Attorney Kevin Gray told jurors of the case during his closing argument. “You don’t get to kill somebody because you get punched.”

Defense attorneys Stephen Lee and Mark Cagle had argued the incident was self-defense, noting that the state’s own witness to the shooting testified about Jones initiating a physical altercation.

Police claimed at the time that Good had some level of association with the Irish Mob but said that was not related to Jones’ death. As a result, Drummond ruled before the trial against jurors’ hearing about any alleged gang connections or about her being Tulsa’s Most Wanted fugitive.

Good had originally faced a first-degree murder charge, but the jury elected to consider the lesser alternatives in convicting her of manslaughter.

“I think the jury got it right,” Lee said after Good’s sentencing.