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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Higgins Station shootings: Young sentenced to 89 years to life
DAYTON — Rodney T. Young, convicted of shooting six people last December at the Higgins Station bar and killing one, was sentenced Thursday, Sept. 3, to 89 years to life.
“You do have a history of violence,” Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Mary Wiseman said. “You do have a history of impulsive behavior.”
Young, 29, was convicted Aug. 20 of all 17 felony counts in his indictment: 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 sentence includes 48 years for the felonious assault counts, 36 years for the firearms specifications on those counts, and five years for the counts of being a felon in possession of a weapon, adding up to 71 years before Young would start serving his 18-to-life sentence for the murder conviction and the firearms specifications. Sentences for the other counts would be concurrent with the 71 years, Wiseman said.
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 he collapsed in the bar parking lot. He was later pronounced dead at an area hospital.
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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