$1 Million Bond Set For Cartersville Man Charged With Murder

CARTERSVILLE, GA — A Cartersville man accused of fatally shooting one person and seriously wounding another over a year ago had his bond set Tuesday at $1 million.

David Aaron Turner is charged with murder, aggravated assault, aggravated battery and possession of a firearm during a felony in connection with the shooting death of Clara Ashworth on June 28, 2020. Turner has been in the Bartow County Jail since.

Judge D. Scott Smith, who set the bond amount, had previously denied a motion to set bond for Turner last August.

“The state is opposed to bond,” assistant district attorney Erle Newton said to The Daily Tribune-News in Cartersville. “However, the State concedes that he is statutorily entitled to a bond given the length of time since the date of occurrence.”

According to court documents as reported by the Cartersville newspaper, Turner is alleged to have opened fire on Ashworth and Charles Bagley with an AR-15 and a 9-millimeter gun. A report from WXIA-TV in Atlanta said a Bartow deputy noticed “a large pile of shell casings in the driveway along with an empty rifle magazine” and the outside of the Crump Road house, where it happened, was “littered with bullet holes.” Investigators found more than 30 shell casings at the scene, according to Newton.

Read the story in The Daily News-Tribune.

Read an account of the shooting and arrest on 11Alive's website.