The Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney has filed the necessary documents to appoint H. Tim Merkle and Gary S. Shroyer as Special Prosecutors to assist the Franklin County Prosecutor’s Office with the investigation and prosecution of matters involving the shooting death of Ca...

Abraham Shears pleaded guilty to murder Monday morning in a September 2019 murder-for-hire case. Shears, 53, hired Donte Slash, 24, who then murdered John Clinedinst, a Columbus City Schools bus driver. The court sentenced Shears to the mandatory 15 years to life in prison. Th...

Mario Cunningham of Columbus was found guilty yesterday on four counts of robbery after a rash of bank robberies in 2018 with an added specification as a result of being a repeat violent offender. Cunningham, 45, robbed a Heartland Bank on November 2nd, 2018, threatening the e...

I would like to extend my gratitude to Commissioner Marilyn Brown and wish her well at the announcement of her impending retirement. Commissioner Brown was elected to her role with the Board of Commissioners in 2006, and has won re-election three times. She additionally served...

Devon Bias, 35, appeared in court on of two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder last week, in addition to three counts of felonious assault, and improperly discharging of a firearm into a habitation. The two counts of murder were for the deaths of two individ...

Columbus is a city seeing unprecedented homicide rates and continuous deaths through gun violence. We must find a path forward that leads to justice, reconciliation, individual accountability, enhanced public safety, transparency, and peace. Most importantly, we must do this t...

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Gregory Huish was sentenced today in an August 2019 murder. Judge Sheryl K. Munson sentenced Huish, 59, to the mandatory 15 years to life on the count of murder, and ran three years concurrent on the count of tampering with evidence. The victim was a roommate and tenant of Hui...

Heather Tapia of Columbus was sentenced Wednesday, April 14 by Judge Sheryl K. Munson in the July 2018 crash that killed Audrey Gartin of Phoenix, who was 39 at the time of her death. After the crash, Tapia fled to Florida and began using an alias. She was subsequently apprehe...

The Franklin County Prosecutor’s office would like to provide a brief update in the Casey Goodson, Jr. matter after the release of the autopsy report by the Franklin County Coroner on Wednesday, March 17th. Investigations take a substantial amount of time to complete, and we u...