Man who fatally slammed son to pavement pleaded guilty

Quindell Sherman

Quindell Sherman

ONUMBA.COM – Quindell Sherman, the man who fatally slammed his 3-month old son to the pavement several months ago during a fight with the boy’s mother, pleaded guilty to aggravated murder last week in Franklin County Common Pleas Court.

Sherman, 20, agreed to plead guilty to the murder of little Jayden Mitchell in exchange for the prosecutors agreeing not to seek the death penalty.

The plea deal kind of worked out because the little boy’s family is opposed to the death penalty.  But Franklin County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien noted that Sherman’s “terrible childhood” was also a factor in crafting the plea deal.

It means that the baby killer could be spared of the ultimate penalty when he is sentenced May 3.  But that doesn’t mean the little boy’s mother, Sonia Mitchell, has a modicum of sympathy for her crummy ex-boyfriend.

“I hate you. You took so much away from me. You should have to rot the rest of your life,” said Mitchell, as she emotionally sobbed in court.  “He needs to be put away for life so that he spends his days suffering the way we have to suffer.”

He most likely will.

O’Brien is requesting life without parole for Sherman.  But Common Pleas Judge John P. Bessey could sentence him to life with the possibility of parole after serving multiple decades in prison.

Obviously, putting Sherman away will officially bring to a close the ghastly incident that played out on Nov. 16, at about 9:45 p.m., outside of 1121 E. 16th Ave. in the Linden community on Columbus’ Northeast side.  But it will hardly bring closure to the family of Jayden left reeling from a tragedy that happened after a melee between Sherman and Sonia got out of control.

It was an atrocious rage unleashed on a little boy by his father. 

“I’m going to take my (expletive) son,” barked Sherman, in the maelstrom of  bickering with the baby’s mother, who did not live with him. 

Sure enough, he took the child after assaulting the baby’s great-grandmother Carolynne Holmes and Mitchell.  But no one anticipated what happened next.  The enraged Sherman slammed the child to the pavement, multiple times.

Holmes ‘911’ call captured the gruesome incident.

“He threw him on the ground.  He threw him out on the street.  He threw him like he was throwing a piece of trash.  He’s killed his baby.”

And that wasn’t even the end of Sherman’s rampage.

Still engulfed in a rage, he scooped up the baby from the street and scooted off to a nearby trash bin where he dumped the child and hid inside the bin.

Officers who arrived at the scene searched the area and found both Sherman and the battered, lifeless baby inside the trash bin.

Mgbatogu is a freelance writer and editor of Onumba.com based in Columbus.  He can be reached by email at: Onumbamedia@yahoo.com

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