Thomas Addington on Monday was found guilty a second time of second-degree murder in the shooting death of 40-year-old Amanda Yellico in Fremont County District Court.
A jury found Addington, 65, guilty of murder in the second degree on Jan. 31, 2020. On April 1, 2020, he was sentenced to 38 years in the Department of Corrections.
A few hours before the shooting, Addington thought Yellico and some men were going to rob him and take his house. Yellico had taken his phone and wouldn’t give it back, he said in previous reports, so he wasn’t able to call for help. He said Addington did a good act by letting Yellico temporarily stay at his house during the winter when everyone else had kicked her out. Neighbors testified that they witnessed Yellico acting strangely and aggressively and were afraid to confront her. Addington finally told Yellico she had to leave, but she returned to the home.
On the night of Yellico’s death, Addington fired a warning shot, went upstairs with his gun, told her to go to bed and then returned to the basement. A few hours later, he fired more rounds through the ceiling from the basement and went to sleep. “Amanda Yellico lived there; she had been staying there; she was getting her mail there; she had a bedroom there; her stuff was there,” Owens said. “It’s obvious she still considered herself to be living there. Not only that, but Thomas Addington does not treat her like an unlawful intruder.”“He was not shooting to stop the threat, he wasn’t shooting to defend himself from an imminent threat,” Owens said.
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