Ashville Man Pleads After Shooting At Tractor

CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio—A Central Ohio man who fired five shots at a small tractor mowing a ditch along his property has pleaded guilty to felonious assault.

Pickaway County Prosecutor Judy Wolford says 53-year-old Randall Turner entered the plea on Friday. He faces two to eight years in prison.

A tractor operator called sheriff’s deputies on Aug. 4 and said he had been confronted by an angry man with a handgun while he mowed a ditch on the edge of Turner’s property in Ashville, 20 miles south of Columbus.

Turner has said he fired the gunshots to disable the tractor.

Turner sued the county in 2007, saying his property had been damaged by the mowing of the ditch. He dismissed the lawsuit last week.

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