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Clark County jurors found 35-year-old Tevious Turner guilty on Aug. 11 on five counts — two counts of murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence and improper handling of a firearm in a vehicle. He was found not guilty of the most serious charge, aggravated murder.
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He was sentenced to 18 years to life for the murder charge, 30 months for tampering with evidence and 18 months for improper handling of a firearm in a motor vehicle. The sentences are to be served concurrently.
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A man will be sentenced today in the shooting death of a Springfield woman as she was driving near downtown.
Clark County jurors found 35-year-old Tevious Turner guilty on Aug. 11 on five counts — two counts of murder, felonious assault, tampering with evidence and improper handling of a firearm in a vehicle. He was found not guilty of the most serious charge, aggravated murder.
Melody Turner, 29, 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.
Melody Turner and Tevious Turner aren’t related.
Tevious Turner and Evan Stewart, Melody Turner’s cousin, were in an argument over a paycheck that day, Clark County Assistant Prosecutor Brian Driscoll said in court.
He said Tevious Turner grabbed his gun from his car and reached into the car where Stewart was in the passenger seat and Melody Turner was in the driver’s seat. Stewart testified that Melody Turner began to back the car up as Tevious Turner reached for the check. When the car began to move forward, Stewart said in court, Tevious Turner fired one shot.
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