Dayton man shoots wife in head, gets 14 years

UPDATE @ 4:45 p.m. (Jan. 15, 2016)

A 54-year-old Dayton man will spend the next 14 years behind bars for shooting his wife in the head last January.

Mark Anthony Derrick, aka Mark Hunter, was sentenced today for the Jan. 5, 2015, shooting that injured his wife, according to the Montgomery County Prosecutor’s Office.

He was convicted in October of felonious assault and a three-year firearm specification; aggravated robbery, domestic violence and having weapons under disability.

He also was convicted in an unrelated case for failutre to notify his address because he is a registered sexual offender and today was sentenced to 36 months, which will be served concurrently to the other sentence.

Derrick was convicted in 2005 for gross sexual imposition of a child younger than 13; for possessing crack cocaine in 2007; and for domestic violence in 2010 in which his wife was the victim, according to the prosecutor’s office.

“Clearly, this defendant’s actions (shooting his wife in the head) and his criminal past show that he is a violent and dangerous repeat offender,” Prosecutor Mat Heck Jr. stated in a release.

UPDATE (Oct. 28, 2015)

Mark Anthony Derrick, 54, was found guilty of felonious assault and a three-year firearm specification; aggravated robbery, domestic violence and having weapons under disability.

UPDATE @3 p.m. (Jan. 20, 2015)

Mark Derrick was indicted today on charges of felonious assault, aggravated robbery, having weapons under disability and domestic violence.

Derrick remains in custody. He is scheduled to be arraigned later this week.

UPDATE @ 2:51 p.m. Jan. 7

Derrick-Hunter’s bond was set at $10,000 today in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.

The victim, Ellen Derrick, remains in critical condition at Miami Valley Hospital.

UPDATE @ 10:30 p.m.: The husband of a woman found shot in a home in the 1000 block of Earlham Drive is in jail on a felony charge of failure to notify.

Mark Derrick, 54, was arrested Tuesday afternoon and has a court date set for Wednesday, according to online Montgomery County Jail records.

There is no information in the records regarding the shooting, which remains under investigation by the police department’s special victims squad.

UPDATE @ 5:10 p.m.: The husband of a woman found shot in a home in the 1000 block of Earlham Drive on Monday afternoon is a suspect in the incident, Dayton police said Tuesday.

Ellen Derrick, 67 and still in critical condition, suffered “extremely critical” injuries, Dayton Lt. Wendy Stiver told News Center 7’s Jessica Heffner.

The woman’s ex-husband, who was dropping off their grandchildren after school, found her in the living room.

“What we know is there was an altercation or argument,” Stiver said. “After the female was found, we discovered her husband was also injured.”

Police found him in Dayton after the shooting, suffering from a gunshot wound to his leg. How he was wounded is still being determined, Stiver said, but she confirms he is a suspect in the shooting.

They have a violent history, she said, and he has been convicted on a domestic violence charge in 2010.

UPDATE @10:57 a.m. (Jan. 6): A woman shot in a home in the 1000 block of Earlham Drive Monday has been identified as Ellen Derrick, 67. She remains in critical condition Tuesday morning.

UPDATE @ 9:15 p.m. (Jan. 5): Police could have more to say Tuesday about the circumstances of a shooting Monday afternoon in a home in the 1000 block of Earlham Drive that left a woman suffering from a head wound, a member of the Dayton homicide/assault squad said.

A preliminary investigation reveals that family members, who had left the residence to pick up children from school, returned to find the woman in the dining room, said Sgt. Richard Blommel with the police department’s homicide/assault squad.

Monday night, the woman, believed to be in her 60s, was in surgery at Miami Valley Hospital, he said.

Blommel said it is too soon to say whether there is a suspect in the shooting.

FIRST REPORT

Homicide detectives are at a home in the 1000 block of Earlham Drive on a shooting that sent a woman to a hospital.

The woman, whose name and age have not been released, suffered a head wound. Her condition is not immediately known.

Dayton Sgt. Richard Blommel would only confirm that a shooting had occurred. He offered no more details as the investigation was in its initial stages.

We’re told Dayton police were dispatched to the residence about 3:15 p.m.

Stay with whio.com for updates on this developing report.

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