Judge Sentences Firearms Instructor To Talk About The Man He Got Killed

By Bob Owens

Concealed carry class instructor Mark Montgomery was indicted for felony reckless homicide this past summer for the shooting death of a gun store owner in Clermont County, Ohio. A student he was instructing had a live weapon in a classroom environment and had a negligent discharge that went through the wall and hit the gun store owner, killing him.

Montgomery pleaded guilty in November, and was just given an unusual and entirely appropriate sentence.

Mark Montgomery, the firearms instructor who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide after a Monroe Township gun shop owner was killed, was sentenced Monday to five years of community control, 120 hours of community service and five days in jail.

This was the sentence handed down to Montgomery, 48, by Clermont County Common Pleas Judge Victor Haddad on Monday. Haddad took the unusual step of allowing all sides of the case one more opportunity to review the case for the sake of transparency.

“So many things happened that shouldn’t have happened in this case, Mr. Montgomery. There has to be something from this that everyone takes to make sure that it doesn’t happen to someone else,” Haddad said.

The judge specified that for the 120 hours of community service Montgomery …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms