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Thursday, August 20, 2009
Higgins Station shootings: Defendant guilty of all charges
DAYTON — The man accused of shooting six people last December at the Higgins Station bar, killing one, was convicted Thursday, Aug. 20, of all 17 felony counts in his indictment.
Rodney T. Young, 29, faces the possibility of being imprisoned for life plus 130 years. Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman set sentencing for Sept. 3. She also revoked all bond for Young.
After deliberating for two hours Thursday, the jury found Young guilty of one count of murder, 12 counts of felonious assault, one count of illegal possession of a firearm in a liquor permit premises, and one count of carrying a concealed weapon.
Two counts of possessing a weapon after a felony conviction were tried to the bench, and Wiseman convicted Young of both.
Sixteen of the counts included firearms specifications, which would add three years to a sentence, and Young was convicted of all of those as well.
The trial started Monday. Prosecutors said that Young fired into a group of people Dec. 12 while inside the bar, 420 E. Main St., Trotwood. David Watson, 21, of Dayton, was shot in the back as he tried to flee and collapsed in the bar parking lot. He was later pronounced dead at an area hospital.
Defense attorney Bobby Joe Cox presented several witnesses Wednesday and Thursday who said they were present in the bar and that they did not see Young shoot anyone. Some said they were friends of Young.
Young was released from a federal prison on supervised parole in September after serving time for a 1998 bank robbery conviction. Following the shooting, Young was a subject of a federal manhunt for violating his parole. He was arrested Dec. 19 when U.S. marshals and local authorities kicked down the door of a Fort Mitchell, Ky., motel room.
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Higgins Station: jury deliberations have started
DAYTON — The case of Rodney T. Young, accused of shooting six people last December at the Higgins Station bar, one fatally, has gone to the jury.
Young, 29, is charged with one count of murder, 12 counts of felonious assault, one count of illegal possession of a firearm in a liquor permit premises, and one count of carrying a concealed weapon. If convicted, Young faces a possibility of being imprisoned for life plus an additional 130 years.
Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman charged the jury with the case just after 2 p.m on Thursday, Aug. 20. Young’s trial started Monday.
Prosecutors said that Young fired into a group of people Dec. 12 while inside the bar, 420 E. Main St., Trotwood. David Watson, 21, of Dayton, was shot in the back as he tried to flee and collapsed in the bar parking lot. He was later pronounced dead at an area hospital.
Defense attorney Bobby Joe Cox presented several witnesses Wednesday and Thursday who said they were present in the bar and that they did not see Young shoot anyone. Some said they were friends of Young.
Young was released from a federal prison on supervised parole in September after serving time for a 1998 bank robbery conviction. Following the shooting, Young was a subject of a federal manhunt for violating his parole. He was arrested Dec. 19 when U.S. marshals and local authorities kicked down the door of a Fort Mitchell, Ky., motel room.
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