Overview
- A Hamilton County judge sentenced Djuane Ferguson to life without parole for killing 25-year-old Joshua Sherman during a haircut at Sherman's East Price Hill home.
- Judge Jody Luebbers called the shooting senseless and said Ferguson frightened her because she believed he could do it again.
- Police said Sherman was shot in the back of the head in October 2024 and later died at a hospital.
- Court records show Ferguson had prior convictions, including aggravated robbery, and had been released from a 20-year term less than two weeks before the killing.
- Ferguson apologized but insisted he was innocent, his lawyers raised childhood sexual abuse as mitigation, he claimed relatives set him up, and the judge rejected those claims as lacking sense.