COLUMBUS (WCMH/AP) — A 17-year-old suspected gang member has been sentenced to 172.5 years in prison after being convicted of aggravated murder and other charges for his role in a quadruple homicide during a robbery at a South Linden home last year.
Jordyn Wade was sentenced Tuesday after being convicted Friday by a Franklin County jury in May in connection to the June 13, 2015 attempted murder of one victim, and the quadruple murders of Michael Ballour, age 41, Daniel Craig Sharp, age 26, Angela D. Harrison, age 35, and Tyajah N. Nelson, age 18, that occurred in the basement of Ballour’s house located in the 1600 block of E. Hudson Street in South Linden.
Wade and his co-defendant Robert Lee Adams, age 27 (at the time of the murders) robbed the victims, ordered them to the basement, and Adams then shot the victims, murdering four of them and wounding a fifth individual. After the shooting Adams and Wade fled the scene. One of the five victims survived the shooting and stumbled from the residence where she sought help. Wade was picked up shortly thereafter.
Adams could face the death penalty if convicted during his trial scheduled for January. Wade wasn’t eligible for the death penalty because he’s a juvenile.
