The man responsible for a shooting at Willow Lake Apartments will not see jail time. Mario Mathis has been sentenced to the mental correction program at the WORTH Center followed by four years of community control. He pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and two counts of improperly handling a firearm in a vehicle. Mathis was dating a woman who previously had a child with Tyson Downton. He didn't want Mathis around his child. 

A Lima man has been indicted for a shooting at the Willow Lake apartment complex this spring. The Allen County Grand Jury has charged 25-year-old Mario Mathis with one count of felonious assault and two counts of improperly handling a firearm in a motor vehicle. The indictment says that Mathis shot Tyson Downton at the apartment complex on March 28, 2019.