Bond set at $500,000 for shooting suspect

Bartholomew County Prosecutor Bill Nash has requested an additional 72-hour hold on a local man arrested and jailed after a shooting Sunday in an apartment on Columbus’ east side.

John I. Cornett, 34, of 1085 Robert Drive — 2D, had been held in the Bartholomew County Jail with no bond since the incident, on a preliminary felony charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, Columbus police said.

While the 72-hour hold has been granted, jail officials said a bond for Cornett has been set at $500,000. Cornett could pay 10 percent of that amount in cash and be released from jail.

Cornett is accused of shooting Joshua L. Music, 32, of Edinburgh, multiple times in an incident reported at 2:22 p.m. Sunday at Cornett’s apartment, which is part of the Quail Run Apartment complex, police said.

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Music was listed in critical condition Wednesday at Indiana University Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.

An individual took Music to Columbus Regional Hospital before an ambulance arrived, and Music was then taken by helicopter to Indianapolis for treatment.