Amanda Turner will spend the next 12-and-a-half years in prison for her role in the August 2023 shooting death of Seth Burns, 23, in Independence, Kentucky

Amanda Turner drove her sons, Xxavion and Jackie, as well as her daughters, Keavier Turner and Lakera Hughes, to a home in Independence on August 25, 2023

The altercation was the fall out of an online dispute between Xxavion, 22, and his ex-girlfriend

Turner admitted in court that she knew her sons regularly carried firearms when she drove them to the house that night

Jackie Turner, 18 was sentenced over the summer to 30 years in prison for murder

His sister Keavier Turner was sentenced to 18 months in prison while Amanda’s other daughter, Lakera Hughes, was sentenced to five years probation for rioting

Xxavion Turner, 22, convicted on two counts of tampering with evidence was sentenced Monday to a total of four years in prison

Amanda Turner was sentenced Monday to 12 and a half years behind bars for her role in the August 2023 shooting death of Seth Burns, by her son Jackie Turner

A mother who drove her four children to a fatal shooting has been convicted for enabling a murder which was prompted by online feud between young people. The Kentucky mother was sentenced to more than a dozen years behind bars on Monday along with two of her sons and one daughter, all of whom will serve time in prison. One daughter was handed a long probation as all six criminal cases related to the shooting all ended in convictions
Amanda Turner, 40, will spend the next 12-and-a-half years in prison for her role in the shooting death of 23-year-old Seth Burns, 23, last year August.
Prosecutors have said Turner drove her sons, Xxavion, 22, and Jackie, 18, as well as her daughters, Keavier Turner and Lakera Hughes, to a home in Independence, Kentucky, on August 25, 2023, following an online dispute between Xxavion and his ex-girlfriend.
The post that started the argument related to ‘insults about children and parenting skills, or lack thereof,’ Kenton County Commonwealth Attorney Rob Sanders said.
Turner admitted in court that she drove her younger son to and from the fight. She also told detectives she knew both of her sons routinely carry guns, when she drove them to the house that night.

Prosecutors have said that Jackie Turner, [left], 18, fired the fatal shot, and he was sentenced to 30 years behind bars. His brother Xxavion Turner, [right], 21, was also sentenced Monday to three years behind bars for tampering with evidence

Amanda Turner at her sentencing hearing on Monday where she was a 12 and half years sentence. “I feel like you and your family acted with complete disregard and malice for any human life,” Burns’ mom, told her in court

Along the way, Xxavion allegedly sent his ex-girlfriend a photo of a Google map showing they were en route and ready to fight.
Prosecutors also claimed Amanda was involved in text messages instigating the fight, and was caught on a neighbor’s Ring doorbell camera leading her children – and Xxavion’s current girlfriend – getting out of a vehicle and walking up to the home.
Burns’ family has said he had nothing to do with the confrontation, but was in the vehicle with his girlfriend – Xxavion’s ex – when she learned the Turners were on their way to fight.

Victim: Jackie Turner shot and killed Seth Burns [center], who was in the car when Xxavion told his girlfriend they were on their way to fight. Burns who didn’t know the Turners had gone to the home with his girlfriend, who was part of the feud    

‘My son literally was an innocent victim in this,’ Seth’s father, Michael Burns, previously said his son ‘didn’t know this man, he didn’t know anybody in that family.’
Burns didn’t know the Turners but went to the Archer Court home with his girlfriend, who was part of the feud, but when the family arrived at the Independence home just before 6pm that night, there was a brief exchange of words before the fight began.
Xxavion Turner fired once in the above Burns, before his brother Jackie, then 17, shot Burns in the torso before the Turner family fled, prosecutors said.
Witnesses then rushed Burns to a nearby fire station, and he was airlifted to University Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he later succumbed to his injuries.
Meanwhile, the criminal complaint said, Amanda drove her sons away from the scene to ‘avoid police detection.’

Mother-of-four Amanda Turner had pled guilty in September 2024, to charges of murder, riot, unlawful transaction with a minor and unlawfully providing a minor with a handgun. She is eligible for parole in four years, but the victim’s family believe she got away with a slap on he wrist, considering her role in the tragedy

Amanda and her children were all charged with wrongdoing in the aftermath.
In July, Jackie, now 18, pled guilty to the murder in July, and in September, His mother Amanda Turner pled guilty to charges of murder, riot, unlawful transaction with a minor and unlawfully providing a minor with a handgun.
She admitted at the time to driving her sons to a ‘girl fight,’ and will be eligible for parole in four years.
With Monday’s sentencing, Amanda joins three of her four children in jail.
18-year-old Jackie Turner who pled guilty to the murder of Seth Burns in July, was sentenced over the summer to serve 30 years in prison. His sister Keavier Turner was sentenced to 18 months in prison while Amanda’s other daughter, Lakera Hughes, convicted for rioting, was sentenced to five years probation.
The man at the center of the row, Xxavion Turner, 22, was also sentenced Monday to a total of four years in prison following his conviction on two counts of tampering with evidence.

Amanda Turner’s daughters Keavier Turner, [left], and Lakera Hughes [right], were sentenced to 18 months in jail and five years probation respectively

Xxavion Turner, [photo], was sentenced to a total of four years in prison. He lied to officers about taking his younger brother’s gun after the shooting. He also told his sister to delete her text message history, prosecutors said

Prosecutors had said he lied to officers about taking his younger brother’s gun after the shooting and told his sister to delete her text message history. Investigators later found the murder weapon in his possession.
He was ultimately convicted of tampering with evidence but not guilty of murder, unlawful transaction with a minor and rioting. 
However, the prosecution argument that portrayed Xxavion Turner as the central figure in the murder of Seth Burns’ death, was successfully countered by the defense team who argued that he was not complicit in the murder because he did not communicate or spend time with his younger brother until they met up for the fight.
But the Burns say the family should have received harsher punishment – claiming Jackie’s was the only just sentence, and that his mother and Xxavion should have received similar sentences.
‘She’s the one that instigated all of this, and being the mother, she just acted with complete disregard for anyone or anything,’ Burns’ mother, Barbara, said of Amanda.
‘I don’t know what kind of mother takes their kids to go shoot someone else’s child. It makes no sense to me.
‘I think they all deserved at least 30 years for what they did.’