COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — A man charged in connection with a double shooting which killed one of the victims has been sentenced after a months-long trial.
After a Franklin County Court of Common Pleas jury convicted Devon Ford in the murder of 40-year-old Adbulrahman Mohamed, a judge handed down a multi-decade sentence Tuesday morning.
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According to court records, Ford, of Columbus, was sentenced to a minimum of 19 years in prison after he was found guilty on two counts of murder, one count of attempted murder, two counts of felonious assault and a weapons charge.
Ford received a mandatory sentence of 15 years-to-life for the first count of murder and 4-to-6 years for the first count of felonious assault. Those two sentences were ruled to run consecutively, while sentencing of three years for each of the firearm specifications, weapons charge and tampering with evidence are to run concurrently.
Police arrested Ford in January 2025, two months after Mohamed and another adult were found with gunshot wounds near the north Columbus intersection of Fitzroy Drive and Walford Street. Mohamed was pronounced dead at the scene, and the other victim was hospitalized in critical condition…