An Akron man was given three consecutive life sentences Tuesday for complicity to commit aggravated murder in the 2013 New Year’s Eve shooting deaths of two Barberton teens and their father.

Michael Deon Hendon, 23, who was convicted of the crime in a Summit County jury trial last month, is not eligible for parole under the sentencing order of Common Pleas Judge Amy Corrigall Jones.

Before learning his fate, Hendon was given a chance to address the court and the public gallery, which was packed nearly to capacity by family members and friends of the victims.

He rose briefly from the defense table, turned his head slightly over his left shoulder and said: “I just want to say sorry to the family. That’s it.”

The scene became tense minutes later when the father of one of the young victims stood and shouted at Hendon from the gallery’s front row: “You killed my daughter” — followed by profanity as he began crying uncontrollably.

A sheriff’s deputy quickly calmed the situation and instructed those in the gallery, more than two dozen, to remain in their seats until other deputies escorted Hendon out of the courthouse.

Deputies later talked to the grieving man, Dan Stephens of Barberton, who is the biological father of 18-year-old victim Ashley Carpenter, but did not place him under arrest.

Ashley’s father figure, John Kohler, 42, and her brother, David Carpenter-Kohler, 14, were shot in the head during a home-invasion robbery planned by Michael Hendon, trial testimony showed.

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A judge has ruled that a 23-year-old Akron man is intellectually disabled and ineligible to face the death penalty in the 2013 New Year’s Eve slayings of two Barberton teens and their father.

The aggravated murder trial of Michael Deon Hendon, one of two Akron brothers indicted for the crime, was scheduled to begin Wednesday with jury selection in Summit County Common Pleas Court.

After a hearing on the matter Tuesday, Judge Amy Corrigall Jones rescheduled jury selection to Aug. 12 and 13, with opening statements Aug. 18.

Hendon and his older brother, Eric Donta Hendon, 32, were both charged in capital murder indictments with the shooting deaths of Ashley Carpenter, 18, her brother David Kohler Carpenter, 14, and their father, John Kohler, 42, at their 7th Street Southwest home in Barberton on Dec. 31, 2013.

Kohler’s girlfriend, Ronda Blankenship, now 39, also was shot at the home but survived. She is expected to be a key state’s witness in both trials.

Eric Hendon still faces the death penalty. His trial is set to begin Oct. 13 in Jones’s court.

Earlier this week, Jones issued a 30-page written order, finding that Michael Hendon had “experienced significant limitations” in two or more adaptive skills well before the age of 18

Those findings were based, in part, on three days of court hearings last month on whether his mental fitness should subject him to the death penalty.

In siding with the defense claim that Michael Hendon is intellectually disabled, Jones wrote that having him face execution would violate the U.S. Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment in the Eighth Amendment.

Jones, according to her order, based her findings on Hendon’s social and medical history, his behavioral and academic records, school tests and reports, Summit County Children Services records, family background and testimony in last month’s court hearings.

Michael Hendon was born in 1991 “addicted to crack cocaine,” Jones wrote, with additional documentation that his mother “abused alcohol” when she was pregnant with him.

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