Accused killer of 5 won’t face death penalty

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Updated: February 3, 2012 11:15PM

BROOKVILLE (AP) — Prosecutors won’t seek the death penalty against a southeastern Indiana man accused of shooting to death five people in an apparent drug dispute.

WISH-TV reports court records show the Franklin County prosecutor’s office filed an amendment to charges against David Ison.

The amended charges seek a sentence of life in prison without the chance for parole if the 46-year-old Glenwood man is convicted in the Sept. 25 shooting rampage.

Ison has pleaded not guilty to five counts of murder in the slayings of 50-year-old Roy Napier; his estranged 47-year-old wife, Angela; their children, 23-year-old Melissa Napier and 18-year-old Jacob Napier; and a 43-year-old neighbor, Henry X. Smith.

Their bodies were found inside and outside Roy Napier’s mobile home in rural Laurel, about 50 miles southeast of Indianapolis.