Man, 19, guilty in killing of accomplice’s uncle

UPDATE @ 9:30 p.m. (Dec. 17): A jury has found Robert Winbush, 19, guilty of multiple charges that include murder in the killing of his accomplice's uncle in his Mad River Twp. home.

A Clark County jury announced the guilty verdicts on charges of murder, aggravated burglary and robbery after three days of trial, according to court records.

Winbush and accomplice Raymond Zimmerman were arrested in January in the slaying of Zimmerman’s uncle, 59-year-old William Henson, in his home on Haddix Road in Mad River Twp. The two also robbed Henson of several firearms from his gun collection, investigators said.

In May, a 17-year-old Zimmerman was sentenced to life in prison after he accepted a plea agreement for his part in the case. He pleaded guilty to murder and aggravated burglary stemming from his escape from county juvenile detention officers on Jan. 24 while being taken to Springfield Regional Medical Center and briefly taking a woman hostage.

Zimmerman’s sentence includes the possibility of parole after 18 years on the murder conviction. The judge added 10 years to Zimmerman’s parole for the escape and abduction.

Winbush is to be sentenced at a later date, according to court records.

EARLIER REPORT (Feb. 10)

Raymond Zimmerman, 17, has been formally charged by a Clark County grand jury in the Jan. 14 shooting death of his uncle in Clark County.

Zimmerman was indicted on multiple charges, including aggravated . He also was charged with murder, three counts of felony murder, felonious assault, aggravated robbery, aggravated burglary and theft of a firearm.

He is currently being held in the Clark County Jail on $500,000 bond.

In a probable cause hearing in juvenile court last week, witnesses told a judge that Zimmerman confessed to them that he had killed his uncle, William Henson, in Henson’s Mad River Twp. home.

Henson was found dead in his Haddix Road home in Mad River Twp. with multiple gunshot wounds, including one to the head, according to investigators.

While Zimmerman was being held at the Clark County Juvenile Detention center he escaped from workers on Jan. 23 as they escorted him to a visit to Springfield Regional Medical Center.

Zimmerman escaped overnight and forced a Springfield woman who lived on West Columbia Street to drive him to Fairborn, police said.

That woman spoke in court last week and told the juvenile court judge that Zimmerman was in her home when she woke up on Jan. 24 and threatened her with a knife.

Robert Winbush, 18, was also arrested and was indicted on multiple charges in the case by a Clark County grand jury Jan. 26. Winbush is in the Clark County Jail on a $1 million bond.

Both men are scheduled to be arraigned in a Clark County Common Pleas courtroom later this week.

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