Robert Keegan testified in his own defense Friday in the Jackson County Court. Keegan was convicted Monday of first-degree manslaughter for the November 2020 shooting death of Aidan Ellison.

Robert Keegan was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison for the Nov. 23, 2020, killing of 19-year-old Aidan Ellison at the Stratford Inn in Ashland.

Judge Timothy Barnack sentenced Keegan to 10 years for first-degree manslaughter, one year for unlawful possession of a firearm, and one year for reckless endangering.

The sentences will run consecutively.

Keegan was also sentenced to five years of post-prison supervision.

Keegan, who was seated in a wheelchair throughout the trial because he was not allowed to use a cane, stood when Barnack asked whether he had anything he wanted to say before sentencing. 

“There’s nothing more that I can say, but I’m sorry,” said Keegan, standing in between his defense attorneys, Alyssa Bartholomew and Clint Oborn. 

Deputy District Attorney Samantha Olson told Barnack that Ellison’s family would not be present for the sentencing.

Keegan will receive credit for the two-and-a-half years he has already spent in Jackson County Jail awaiting trial. That means he will spend 7.5 years in state prison on the manslaughter conviction, then be transferred back to the Jackson County Jail to serve two years on the lesser convictions, for a total of 9.5 years in a cell.

Keegan, 50, was convicted Monday of first-degree manslaughter in the killing of Ellison during an argument over loud music.

Kegan was acquitted of second-degree murder after 11 jurors voted to find Keegan not guilty on the murder charge, and one voted guilty.