No prison time for Springfield woman in shooting of date she first met online

A 19-year-old Springfield woman will not go to prison for the role she played in the carjacking and shooting of a man she met on an online dating site, Clark County prosecutors said.

Alexis Insley was sentenced Monday to three years’ community control.

She met a man through the dating website Plenty-O-Fish in October, prosecutors said, and the man agreed to meet her in Springfield.

On their date, several other people got in the vehicle, too, and one of them ordered the male date out of the car at gunpoint.

A fight started between the people outside of the car on Raffensperger Avenue and the driver was shot in the leg and carjacked, according to prosecutors.

“I think we're lucky in this case the defendant isn't here on a murder charge based on the facts of this case,” county Assistant Prosecutor Megan Farley said at the sentencing hearing.

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Although Insley didn’t pull the trigger, Judge Richard O’Neill called her “the bait” and said she went along with what happened.

Insley was initially indicted on aggravated robbery and felonious assault charges, but accepted a plea deal and admitted to one count of robbery.

“I understand my actions and the pain it caused other people and myself,” Insley said at sentencing. “I'd like to go back to school and have a healthy life.”

The October incident was not the first time Insley used the method to take advantage of someone she met online.

According to court documents, three weeks prior to the carjacking – Insley met another man on the same dating website.

She and a group of women she knew were riding in the car with him. They asked the man to get them marijuana or alcohol and when he refused, one of the women threatened to call police and tell them the man kidnapped and raped them if he didn’t pull $100 out of his bank account.

Insley was sentenced Monday for the October incident only.

As part of her plea deal, she agreed to testify against another defendant in the October incident.