The Mansfield News Journal reported a jury found Charles Mack Jr. guilty on two murder counts in the death of Danny Bowles.

Guilty on two murder counts and one felonious-assault count, and not guilty on the deadly-weapon assault and the murder count that went with it, is the split the Mansfield News Journal reported. A witness's account of a brick is not that split. Twenty-five years to life is what the paper said he will likely receive. Nov. 4 at 9 a.m. is when Judge Phil Naumoff is set to sentence him. Likely and sentenced are not the same step.

The Mansfield News Journal, by Mark Caudill, published Oct. 30, 2026, at 5:54 p.m. ET, reported a seven-woman, five-man jury deliberated for under two hours the afternoon of Oct. 30 before finding Charles Mack Jr. guilty on two of three counts of murder and one of two counts of felonious assault in the death of Danny Bowles. It reported the murder convictions carry repeat violent offender specifications. It reported Mack, 65, of Mansfield, will be sentenced at 9 a.m. Nov. 4 before Richland County Common Pleas Judge Phil Naumoff. The first sentence says a 65-year-old Mansfield man will likely be sentenced to 25 years to life for causing Bowles's death. Will likely be sentenced, and a term a judge has imposed, are not the same step. The story does not print a year on Nov. 4. It reported Mack showed no emotion as Naumoff read the verdict. Assistant Prosecutor Nik Buckmeier told the paper the split was this: jurors found Mack guilty of the murder count that said he purposefully caused the death of Bowles, guilty of felonious assault by causing serious physical harm and the murder count associated with it, and not guilty of felonious assault using a deadly weapon and the accompanying murder count. Two guilty murder counts and one not-guilty murder count are the split. They are not three guilty counts, and they are not one.

What the paper says happened on Sturges Avenue is a witness account next to that split. It reported the defendant assaulted Bowles, 70, on the night of June 9, 2025, in the 100 block of Sturges Avenue, where a few friends were hanging out, that Mack and Bowles argued over a woman, and that the argument led to an altercation. It did not name the woman. It reported a witness said Mack struck Bowles with a brick, then stomped on his head, that Bowles soon fell into a vegetative state, and that he died three months later in an area nursing home. The story does not name the nursing home and does not print the date of death. A brick is what the paper said the witness said. The count the jury rejected was felonious assault using a deadly weapon, and the murder count that accompanied it. The story does not print that the jury was asked whether the weapon was a brick. Struck with a brick, and not guilty of felonious assault using a deadly weapon, are not the same finding. Three months later is the paper's interval. It is not a date.

The prosecutor's description of the verdict is not the verdict. Buckmeier said, "I want to thank the jury for their service in this case," and "I agree with their verdict based on the evidence presented." He said it is not easy for a jury when the defendant takes the stand. He said, "They (jurors) didn't believe what the defendant said for how he came to take Danny's life," and "They clearly believed that he was not acting in self-defense, but out of anger, malice or some kind of malicious intent." Anger, malice, and malicious intent are the prosecutor's words for what he thinks the jury believed. They are not the count language the paper used for the guilty murder count, which was that Mack purposefully caused the death. The paper reported Mack claimed on the witness stand that he acted in self-defense. A self-defense claim and a prosecutor's statement that jurors did not believe it are not the same as the not-guilty counts. The not-guilty counts are the deadly-weapon assault and the murder count that went with it. Buckmeier credited Mansfield Police Detective Korey Kaufman and co-counsel Assistant Prosecutor Tyler Ehret, who gave the closing argument. Ehret said he was grateful the jury parsed the evidence "and get justice for the victim and his family." Justice, in that sentence, is the prosecutor's word. The finding is the split verdict.

The defense attack on the witness is the paper's account of the closing, not a second verdict. Defense Attorney Edward Corley told the News Journal his client wanted to testify, and said, "Charley Mack was confident that what (key state witness) Terrance Bluester was saying was incorrect." Charley Mack and Charles Mack Jr. are not the same spelling. Corley told jurors the state's case rested on one person, that Bluester "is a career criminal," and that Bluester has two convictions for falsification. The paper reported Bluester is serving a three-year prison sentence for trespass in a habitation when a person is likely to be present, attempted tampering with evidence, and breaking and entering, that he was reluctant to testify, and that he said Mack was like a father figure to him. Two falsification convictions are what the paper reported Corley pointed out. They are not a finding in the Bowles verdict. The paper reported that before trial Mack had been scheduled for a change of plea and opted not to go forward. A plea date he did not take, and guilty counts a jury returned, are not the same step. The repeat-violent-offender specifications are what the paper said the murder convictions carry. The sentence is the Nov. 4 hearing. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.