Man whose 'scare' shot at Amazon co-worker killed a mom resting her head on the lap of her 4-year-old daughter learns his fate

An Ohio antheral volition walk decades down bars for sidesplitting a pistillate successful beforehand of her 4-year-old girl successful a road shooting that combined road rage with a belated would-be enactment of revenge.

Earlier this month, Noah Messiah Corbitt, 24, pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of murder by felonious assault, 4 counts of felonious battle with a deadly weapon, and 1 number of discharging a firearm connected oregon adjacent prohibited premises, Law&Crime previously reported.

On Friday afternoon, Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas Judge Kimberly A. Melnick sentenced the suspect to beingness successful situation with the anticipation of parole aft 21 years for the combined offenses, the pb authoritative connected the lawsuit told Law&Crime. Corbitt volition besides person 416 days of recognition for clip spent successful pretrial detention.

The underlying incidents occurred connected Sept. 21, 2024, erstwhile an aged statement implicit wealth took an affectional and yet fatal turn.

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On the time successful question, Corbitt was upset with different antheral aft a weapon merchantability went awry, according to a sentencing memorandum.

Years ago, Corbitt was expected to person received the firearm successful speech for $200, but aft getting paid, the different antheral allegedly went backmost connected the woody — leaving with Corbitt's wealth but ne'er coming backmost with the gun, prosecutors say. Recently, Corbitt and the different antheral became co-workers astatine an Amazon installation successful Vandalia, a tiny suburb located immoderate 11 miles owed northbound of Dayton.

On Sept. 20, 2024, and into the aboriginal greeting of the adjacent day, the men came into interaction with 1 another, the memo recounts.

"The 2 individuals had not seen each different since the failed weapon sale," the memo reads. "The Defendant confronted [the different antheral who] indicated that helium did not privation to combat due to the fact that helium did not privation them to suffer their jobs."

On Sept. 21, 2024, betwixt 6:30 a.m. and 7 a.m., some men near the Amazon installation pursuing overnight shifts. Corbitt followed his co-worker, authorities say. The suspect traveled successful his bluish Chevrolet Impala, portion the different antheral got a thrust from Jermea Lyle, 26, successful her metallic Nissan Altima.

Lyle worked astatine a adjacent status assemblage and besides worked the nighttime shift. That morning, Lyle's daughter's begetter picked her up and past drove to the Amazon installation to prime up the different man.

As the Altima near Interstate 75 heading southbound to merge onto Interstate 35 going westbound, the unfortunate was dormant successful the backmost spot of the car adjacent to her girl successful her car spot — erstwhile a changeable rang out.

"Lyle awoke and indicated that she had been hit," the memo reads. "[The driver] saw a bluish Chevy Impala speeding disconnected the exit astatine the Germantown Street exit."

Lyle was rushed to Miami Valley Hospital by 7:15 a.m. and was soon pronounced dead, according to authorities.

"A slug entered her near backmost and exited her near thorax arsenic her caput rested successful the thigh of her [4-year-old] daughter," the memo goes on. "The slug caused injuries to her near lung, heart, and broke her rib."

Then, the operator circled the country wherever the shooting occurred connected a representation provided by instrumentality enforcement. Later, a 9 mm hollow constituent slug was collected from the backmost of the driver's spot successful the Altima.

"The slug had passed done the trunk, the backmost seat, [Lyle's] body, and lodged successful the backmost of the driver's seat," the memo continues. "The bullet's formation was little than 2 feet from hitting the car spot wherever [the small girl] was seated."

During a consequent interrogation with police, the Amazon co-worker discussed the resurfaced gun-and-money statement with Corbitt, according to prosecutors. Soon enough, investigators learned the suspect was the registered proprietor of a bluish Impala.

A hunt warrant was executed astatine Corbitt's residence — turning up a 9 mm mag with hollow constituent bullets. The Impala was towed, and a 9 mm Taurus pistol — loaded with hollow constituent bullets — was recovered, prosecutors say. By October 2024, a ballistics adept connected the weapon and ammunition, uncovering that the recovered Taurus was the weapon that fired the fatal shot, according to instrumentality enforcement.

On Oct. 4, 2024, Corbitt was indicted connected 8 counts.

In a custodial interview, helium was seemingly voluble astir the relation helium played successful the sleeping mother's decease connected the highway.

"Per Defendant, helium fired the changeable left-handed retired of his driver's broadside model arsenic a informing shot," the memo reads. "He indicated that his weapon jammed aft the archetypal shot."

Under the presumption of his plea agreement, 2 counts against him were dropped and the authorities and defence yet agreed to the 21-year condemnation that was imposed by the justice connected Friday.

In the defense's ain sentencing memo, Corbitt's lawyer notes that the suspect is simply a begetter to a 3-year-old lad and that helium volition ne'er hide the "grave mistake" helium made by shooting astatine Lyle's car.

"Corbitt did not cognize [Lyle] and her girl were successful the car," the defence memo reads. "Had helium known, the 'scare' changeable to [his co-worker] would not person been fired. Suffice to say, Corbitt regrets his enactment that greeting — particularly considering helium excessively is simply a genitor of a young child."

The state, for its part, said immoderate "remorse expressed astatine this constituent lacks legitimacy" due to the fact that of anterior statements Corbitt made. In turn, the defence said those anterior statements, which included attempts to support himself, "should not beryllium construed arsenic a deficiency of remorse."

For each the back-and-forth arguments, the justice did not deviate from the agreed-upon condemnation of 21 years.

"This was a senseless shooting, that took the beingness of a wholly guiltless young parent and near her 4-year-old miss without her mom," Montgomery County Prosecuting Attorney Mat Heck said successful a property release. "This suspect deserves each azygous time of his situation sentence."