TOLEDO, Ohio — Editor's note: The following story has been updated to correct a numerical error.
UPDATE: A Lucas County judge sentenced Jadiah Carter to life in prison without parole Thursday for the shooting death of 7-month-old Desire Hughes.
Carter was convicted on six charges, including aggravated murder. In the state of Ohio, the penalty for an aggravated murder conviction is life imprisonment or death.
A Lucas County grand jury on April 14 found Carter guilty on murder charges in the 2022 shooting death of 7-month-old Desire Hughes.
Carter, of Toledo, was found guilty of one count of aggravated murder, one count of murder, one count of attempt to commit murder, two counts of felonious assault and one count of discharging a firearm on or near prohibited premises.
His sentencing was set for April 27 at 10:30 a.m., exactly one year after Hughes was shot and killed in west Toledo when occupants of another vehicle fired shots at a car she was in being driven by her father. Hughes was taken to the hospital with a gunshot wound to the chest, where she later died from her injuries.
Carter was found guilty as Toledo continues to grapple with gun violence, seeing 12 homicides so far in 2023. Seven of those victims have been juveniles, the most recent being 17-year-old Mark Wortham.
Toledo had 66 homicides in 2022. Nine of those victims were minors, and five were 10 years old or younger, including Hughes.
On April 13, six people, including a four-year-old, were shot within minutes of each other near Smith Park in central Toledo.
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