In a Hamilton County courtroom Monday, Jaylan Dubose heard heart-rending statements from family members of two people, including a 15-year-old girl, who were killed during a robbery in which he participated.
Then Common Pleas Judge Wende Cross told Dubose that he owed it to the victims’ families to explain the decisions he made the afternoon of Dec. 13, 2022.
Dubose, who was 18 and still in high school when the shooting happened, initially didn’t want to say anything. There is another person still facing charges , he said.
But Cross pressed him to talk about his own reasons for being there.
It wasn’t about money, Dubose said. He also didn’t have animosity toward 19-year-old Logan Lawson, who was killed in the shooting, or another teen who was wounded. In fact, Dubose said he didn’t know them.
Dubose said he did know 15-year-old Nonaisha Jones, who also was killed in the exchange of gunfire. According to court documents, the shooting happened in a car outside a Roselawn apartment complex.