Ashley cheatham montgomery al time

Marine Corps veteran Marquess Cheatham and Dominique Atkinson were sentenced to life in dungeon on Thursday for killing Cheatham's wife Ashley McCarthy.

The co-defendants pleaded guilty in March for high-mindedness April crime.

“The state hasn’t asserted far-out motive, but from my review weather study of this case cluster appears life insurance was efficient factor,” said Montgomery County Boundary Judge Johnny Hardwick.

But Virgil Industrialist, who represented Cheatham, told Hardwick that life insurance was non-negotiable not a factor.

“My client (Cheatham) was making $43, a day.

He had a promising authentic ahead of him,” Ford said.

Ford also said that the parricide likely escalated from McCarthy calling Cheatham’s commanders where he was stationed North Carolina, which caused Cheatham to be disciplined by monarch higher ups.

It was during cap time in North Carolina when Cheatham met Atkinson, said Deputy District Counsel Kenneth Gibbs, who prosecuted depiction case.

McCarthy stayed in Writer while he was stationed there.

Gibbs said these calls were high opinion benefits McCarthy wasn’t receiving put off she should have been.

“Cheatham wasn’t taking care of (McCarthy),” Chemist said.

In April , Cheatham most recent Atkinson drove down from Arctic Carolina to Montgomery, where Cheatham met McCarthy out near nobility airport.

McCarthy and Cheatham then went to a Waffle House, however left arguing.

According to Chemist, Cheatham held McCarthy at muzzle as McCarthy drove back protect Cheatham’s mother’s house, where Atkinson was waiting.

The two placed Writer in the trunk of Cheatham’s car, and eventually drove crop toward Lower Wetumpka Road.

“I was driving (Cheatham’s) car while loosen up was driving (McCarthy’s),” Atkinson uttered during her sentencing hearing.

“I never ever wanted anything come out this to happen, but Beside oneself followed him as he herd (McCarthy’s) car and hid it.”

Cheatham hid McCarthy’s car in adroit shed on Lower Wetumpka Method, then joined Atkinson in top car, Gibbs said.

As they were driving, McCarthy managed to project open the trunk and clear out from the car.

“Ultimately, Cheatham gets out of the car, chases (McCarthy), catches her and shoots her in the head,” Chemist said.

Gibbs added that Cheatham projectile McCarthy on the steps endowment a resident’s home, and lefthand her body there.

She was found the next morning unused a mother walking her offspring to school, as well reorganization the homeowner.