A man accused in the shooting death of another man in 2017 has been sentenced in Warren County Circuit Court. 29 year old Michael Cody Mills was sentenced to 23 years in prison for the murder of 43 year old Bobby Ashburn. Mills had pleaded guilty to second-degree murder earlier this year.
Authorities said Mills was under the influence of meth at the time of the murder. Ashburn had reportedly arrived at a home on Cherry Springs Road to bring food to his daughter when Mills shot him four times with a handgun. Mills then fled the scene but was captured a short time later by sheriff’s deputies in a nursery field.