
An Axton man has been sentenced in Henry County Circuit Court in connection with the shooting death of a Martinsville man.
Taylor Paige Thomas, 24, of Axton has been sentenced to 13 years with five years and six months suspended and $16,495.77 in fines, restitution and costs for an amended charge of voluntary manslaughter and three charges of brandish a firearm. Charges of use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and malicious shoot in an occupied dwelling were dismissed.
Thomas had been charged with the second-degree murder of Jeremiah Turner.