A Columbus man will spend at least the next two decades in prison for beating a Prairie Township man to death during a break-in last year. Anthony Kuhn, 43, pleaded guilty on Monday, November 9, to aggravated burglary, voluntary manslaughter and tampering with evidence in the May 1, 2025, death of Phillip Baldwin, 62, and Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Andria Noble sentenced him to 23 to 28½ years in prison, The Columbus Dispatch reported.
The plea and sentence, both delivered on Monday, close the criminal case against Kuhn roughly 18 months after Baldwin was found dead inside his home on Hall Road. Kuhn had originally been charged with murder, and he faced an additional count of aggravated robbery when he and a co-defendant were first charged in May 2025, according to Franklin County Municipal Court filings reported by The Dispatch at the time.
Baldwin’s brother found him unresponsive at the home the brothers shared in the 6500 block of Hall Road in Prairie Township and told a Franklin County dispatcher he believed Phillip had been assaulted, according to a news release issued by the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office and reported by The Dispatch. Prairie Township Fire Department medics pronounced Baldwin dead at 4:38 p.m. on May 1, 2025, and a sheriff’s detective wrote in a criminal complaint that Baldwin had suffered substantial head injuries…