Accused Ind. killer of 5 won't face death penalty
David Ison walks into the courthouse on Wednesday, Oct. 12, 2011.
Photographer: Jay Warren
Posted: 02/03/2012
BROOKVILLE, Ind. - Prosecutors won't seek the death penalty against a southeastern Indiana man accused of shooting to death five people in an apparent drug dispute.
WISH-TV reports court records show the Franklin County prosecutor's office filed an amendment to charges against David Ison.
The amended charges seek a sentence of life in prison without the chance for parole if the 46-year-old Glenwood man is convicted in the Sept. 25 shooting rampage.
Ison has pleaded not guilty to five counts of murder in the slayings of 50-year-old Roy Napier; his estranged 47-year-old wife, Angela; their children, 23-year-old Melissa Napier and 18-year-old Jacob Napier; and a 43-year-old neighbor, Henry X. Smith.
Their bodies were found inside and outside Roy Napier's mobile home in rural Laurel, about 50 miles southeast of Indianapolis.
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