CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A judge has decided not to send an Ohio man to prison for shooting at a small
tractor doing some mowing along his property.
Fifty-three-year-old Randall Turner had faced up to eight years in prison on his guilty plea to felonious
assault. But a judge in central Ohio’s Pickaway County handed down a three-year suspended sentence
Thursday.
Turner had said he meant to disable the tractor, not hurt its operator, when he fired five shots on Aug.
4, 2008, as a ditch bordering his property was being mowed. Earlier, Turner sued the county, saying the
ditch-mowing damaged his property in Ashville, 20 miles south of Columbus. He eventually dropped the
suit.
The judge also put Turner on three years’ probation, fined him $5,000 and ordered his handgun destroyed.
CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio (AP) — A judge has decided not to send an Ohio man to prison for shooting at a small
tractor doing some mowing along his property.
Fifty-three-year-old Randall Turner had faced up to eight years in prison on his guilty plea to felonious
assault. But a judge in central Ohio’s Pickaway County handed down a three-year suspended sentence
Thursday.
Turner had said he meant to disable the tractor, not hurt its operator, when he fired five shots on Aug.
4, 2008, as a ditch bordering his property was being mowed. Earlier, Turner sued the county, saying the
ditch-mowing damaged his property in Ashville, 20 miles south of Columbus. He eventually dropped the
suit.
The judge also put Turner on three years’ probation, fined him $5,000 and ordered his handgun destroyed.
