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COLUMBUS, OHIO - A Mansfield man already serving nearly a decade in prison will spend the rest of his life there after being convicted in connection with the 2022 execution-style shooting of a teenager whose body was found between trash cans in a Columbus Hilltop alley.
Jaheym Cheeks, 23, appeared Oct. 3 before Franklin County Common Pleas Court Judge Kim Brown, who sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A jury has found Cheeks guilty on Sept. 17 of aggravated murder and murder in the March 5, 2022, shooting of 14-year-old Brylan Butcher, also of Mansfield.
Cheeks is also serving a prison sentence of more than nine years for unrelated charges from Richland County.
Assistant Franklin County Prosecutors Steve Schott and Cedric Ware had asked for the life sentence, the maximum possible, given the way in which Cheeks killed Butcher and Cheeks' previous criminal history.
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