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CINCINNATI -- A special needs patient who shot and killed his caregiver has been sentenced to 13 years in prison.
Prosecutors said 19-year-old Anthony Irby, who was under the care of the Hamilton County Board of Mental Retardation, shot and killed Devona Daniels during an argument March 19 about money.
Daniels was employed by Focus on Independence, and investigators said she refused to give Irby more money for food after he'd spent his monthly cash allotment.
Irby was charged with murder, but he agreed to plead guilty Monday to involuntary manslaughter.
Prosecutors said Irby called 911 after the shooting and tried to perform life-saving maneuvers on Daniels but he left the Forest Park woman's side before police arrived to hide the rifles and two other weapons in nearby woods.
Irby was prevented from owning firearms after being declared mentally incompetent after a juvenile arrest, but he was found mentally competent to stand trial for murder.
Beth Haller, Ph.D., is Co-Director of the Global Alliance for Disability in Media and Entertainment (www.gadim.org). A former print journalist, she is a member of the Advisory Board for the National Center on Disability and Journalism (https://ncdj.org/). Haller is Professor Emerita in the Department of Mass Communication at Towson University in Maryland, USA. Haller is co-editor of the 2020 "Routledge Companion to Disability and Media" (with Gerard Goggin of University of Sydney & Katie Ellis of Curtin University, Australia). She is author of "Representing Disability in an Ableist World: Essays on Mass Media" (Advocado Press, 2010) and the author/editor of Byline of Hope: Collected Newspaper and Magazine Writing of Helen Keller (Advocado Press, 2015). She has been researching disability representation in mass media for 30+ years. She is adjunct faculty in the Disability Studies programs at the City University of New York (CUNY) and the University of Texas-Arlington.
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