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JEFFERSON COUNTY — A 43-year-old Evansville, Indiana woman pleaded guilty Thursday in Jefferson County Court to felony murder stemming from the 2022 shooting death of 46-year-old Cadias Jackson at his Dix, Illinois home.

Retha McIntire was scheduled to be tried by a Jefferson County jury starting Tuesday. However, she instead pleaded guilty Thursday and was sentenced to 25 years in prison and will have to serve 100 percent of her sentence.

In March, a Jefferson County jury found Treyaveon Massie guilty of Jackson’s shooting death. He’s scheduled to be sentenced later this month.

The two were arrested in September after Jefferson County Sheriff’s deputies responded to Jackson’s home of in the Rolling Meadows Trailer Park where they found him suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.

He was transported to Crossroads Hospital where he ultimately died from his injuries.

The initial investigation revealed the offenders fled the scene in a white van with Indiana plates.

Sheriff’s Deputies and officers from Mt Vernon Police Department stopped the vehicle in Mt. Vernon and arrested Massie and McIntire.

McIntire was reportedly driving the white van when it fled the murder scene.