Man serving 24 to 52 years in Michigan prison admitted role in 2013 Norwood homicide


A man already serving 24 to 52 years for a Michigan murder was sentenced this week in Hamilton County for his role in a 2013 shooting in Norwood that killed a woman and seriously wounded her boyfriend.

Josiah Fousse, 30, was one of three people investigators connected to the robbery and shooting, which happened in November 2013 on a Norwood street. Twenty-year-old Porshia Brooks was killed and her boyfriend, Aron Martin, survived. Both were shot in the head.

Sometime afterward, Fousse apparently fled to Michigan, where in 2015, he was involved in the killing of Randall Byrd III near Muskegon. Byrd also had been connected to the Norwood shooting.

Fousse and another man were arrested and charged in Byrd’s killing that same year. Fousse ultimately pleaded guilty in Muskegon County to charges including murder, and records show he was sentenced in 2019 to the prison term.

Josiah Fousse

Josiah Fousse

After Fousse was sentenced in Michigan, he was brought to Hamilton County to face charges in the shooting of Brooks and Martin. In September, nearly 10 years after the shooting, he pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and aggravated robbery.

On Tuesday, Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Chris Wagner imposed an 18-year sentence that had been agreed upon as part of the plea, court records show. That prison term will run concurrent with his Michigan sentence.

Fousse’s attorney, Clyde Bennett II, said Fousse will not serve additional prison time for the Ohio conviction.

“The sentence he received is very good for him and his family,” Bennett said, adding: “For that, his family and I are thankful.”

The man who prosecutors say shot Brooks and Martin during the robbery, 30-year-old Jaleel Smith, pleaded guilty in 2016 to aggravated murder and is serving life without the possibility of parole.

Brooks and Martin were inside a parked car, when according to court documents, Smith, Fousse and Byrd approached the car. Smith forced Martin out of the passenger side, went through his pockets and then shot him. According to the documents, Smith then leaned into the car and shot Brooks, who died three days later.

This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Michigan prison inmate admitted role in 2013 killing of Porshia Brooks

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